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PUBLIC BUILDINGS 

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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF POINTS OF INTEREST 
AND VIEWS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS 



PUhLISIIKV i^y 

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38 J^'ront Street, 

Gominewial, Book and Job Printing. 



Copyright, 1886, by SANFORD & DAVIS 



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SANKOKL) Sz DAVliS. 

38 Front Street. 



PREFATORY. 



Our Advertising 3r*atrons- 

The mere list of our advertisers contributes a valuable historic feature to 
this issue. 

Ihe greater industries of Worcester are represented in these pages by the 
Washburn <fc Moen Manufacturing Company and the Knowles Loom 
Works and the Forehand & Wadsworth Arms Works. 

The Clothing trade is indicated by the leading houses of Ware, Pratt & Co. 
and Macullar & Son. The Gents Furnishing trade by E. B. Clapp. 

The great dry goods establishment of Barnard, Sumner & Co , has no 
superior in Central Massachusetts. 

The Music trade give us tlie names of S. R. Leland & Son and C. L. Gor- 
ham <t Co. 

Insurance circles carry no better names or institutions than those of A, N. 
Currier & Son, the First National Fire Insurance Co., the State Mutual Life 
and N. A. Harrington. 

The Gymnasium of Miss Burke is an excellent and prosperous institution. 

In Carpets and Furniture the large warcrooms of Pinkham & Willis, and 
H. W. Denny & Co , and in Upholstery, W. Laugher, J. G. White, H. F. Ross. 

Ill I>ooks and Stationary, Sanford & Co., and Putnam, Davis & Co., are 
representative Worcester establishments, W. E. Sawtelle, makes a specialty of 
Stationery. 

Our Drug Stores are represented by Geo. E. Fairbanks, the estate of J L. 
Burbank and the G. G. Burbank Drug Store. 

In Jewelry by A. L. Burbank, and A. F. Burbank. In Optical 
goods,' Stockwcll & Pratt. In Toys, Iv A. Merrill. 

In Coal W. II. Jourdan <t Co. In Real Estate, II. T. Farrar In 
Crockery and Glass, by W. E. Howe. In Harnesses, by L. A. Hastings and 
in the Livery business by Harrington, Bros. In Bookbinding, by J. S. 
Wesby & Sons. 

Financial interests are represented by the Worcester Safe Deposit & Trust 
Company, the City National Bank, the Mechanics Savings Bank, the Peoples 
Savings Bank, and C. B. Whiting <t Co., P)i'oker-s. 

Tlie Tonsorial Pai-Jor of (Jeorire E. Miller, is one of the largest in the city. 

Herbert Hall, the establishment of Dr. Merrick Bemis, is a widely 
known institution. Tliu Worcester Theatre, maintains a high place in its 
plan of amusements. 

The Oread Institute, managed by Hon. Kli Thayer deserves to he 
uientioned as one of the jtromincnt Educational Institutions of the City. 



We must acknowledge liere the courte«sy of Messrs. Kirchner & Lock- 
wood of the VVorcester Printing and Publishing Company, 47 Main Street, 
for numerous, excellent cuts, employed in our illustrated matter. These gen- 
tlemen have inst became associated with Henry M. Smith in the publication of 
the Worcester Home Journal, a well established weekly newspaper, of which 
Mr. Smith has editorial charge. The literary matter in these pages following 
has been furnished by him and we feel sure has been recognized as possessing 
a chai-acter that will make our publication welcome and valuable to patrons* 

and readers. 

SANFORD & DAVIS. 
Worcester, December, 1886. 



Index to Advertisers 



Burbank, A. L 2-5 

liurhaiik, A. F 25 

Banianl, Sunn er & Co., 48 

Burhank, J. L., esiateof 54 

Burbatik, The G. G., Pharmacy, 50 

Beinis, Dr. M 64 

Burke, E. Agnes see cover 

Clapp. E. B 20 

City National Bank,.. 34 

Curi ier, Aug. N. & Son CO 

Denny, II. W. & Co 52 

Fairbanks, Geo. E 15 

Fir.st National Fire Ins. Co 44 

Fon^hand & Wad.swortb, 50, 51 

Farrar, II. T see inset 

Gorham. C. L. & Co 20 

Halstead, Miss E. M 22 

Hastings, L. A see inset 

Harrington & Bro 38 

Hovvo, W E 44 

Harrington, N. A, 52 

Herbert Hall 04 

Jourdan, W. II. & Co 32 

Kilhara, Miss 22 

Kno wles Loom Works, 62, 63 



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Leland, S. R. & Son 36 

Laugher, Wm 60 

Merrill, E. A 20 

Morgan, Miss Ella K 64 

Miller, Geo. E 56 

Macullar «S; Son see cover 

Oread Institute, 54 

Pinkhani A Willis, 40 

Peoples Savings Bank 61 

Putnam, Davis & Co see insets 

Ross, H. F 56 

Sanford & Co 11 

Sawtelle, W. E 40 

Stockwell & Pratt 56 

State Mutual Life Assurance Co 57 

Throop, Mrs. E. S 22 

Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank 8 

Worce^ter Safe Deposit & Trust Co 18 

Whiting. Chas. B. & Co 32 

White. J. G 36 

Worcester Ttieatre 42 

Ware. Pratt & Co 46 

Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co 58, 5{> 

Wesby, J. S. & Sons, 60 



Business Classifled. 



Apothecary, 15, 54, 50 

Bookbinders, 00 

Banks 18, 34 

Bankers and Brokers, 32 

Barber 56 

Booksellers, see insets 11 

Coal 32 

Clothing Store see cover, 40 

Dry Goods, 48 

Fancy Goods, 20 

Furniture, 40, 52 

Fire Insurance 44, 52, 00 

Fire Arcs, 50, 51 

Gents Furnishing Goods, 20 

Gymnasium, see cover 

Harnesses see inset 

Jewelry, 25 

Life Assurance, 67 



Looms, 58, 59 

Music Store, 20, 36 

Opticians, 56 

Pianos and Organs, etc 20, 36 

Private Schools, 22, 54 

Real Estate see inset 

Silver Ware, etc., 25 

Sportsman's Goods, 25 

Safe Deposits, 18 

Savings Banks, 8, 61 

Stable 38 

Stationers see inserts li and 40 

Toilet Articles, 56 

Toys, etc., 20 

Theatre, 42 

Upholstery, 36, 56, 60 

Watches, Jewelry, etc, .* 25 

Wire, 68, 59 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 




' .^>>^ HE story of a city like Worcester is like the unfolding of a 
web whose length never finished holds patterns ever new, 
and ever changing. It has its phases year by year ; and the 
facts of each year are not only a record in themselves but 
must find interpretation in, and furnish their own interpre- 
tation of records gone before. 

This gives the place and the special value of publica- 
tions like those of the present venture. In one sense 
ephemeral, because attached to a particular date or event, 
they 'are nevertheless permanent, as permanent as any 
other page of city history, if only a fidelity to a genuine purpose characterizes 
the undertaking. 

One important feature belongs to works of this class if they are 
worthy to attract the attention they invite. They become, each in their own 
way, and in tlieir own contacts the educators of their time in a knowledge not 
easily over estimated, pertaining to the city, where as in this instance, Worces- 
ter is tlie theme. It is of direct and appreciable value to this city that its 
essential character, its response ro growth, should be well known, first of all to 
its own citizens, and through these and by their intelligence on this subject to 
a continually widening circle of those outside and abroad,'u})on whom the city 
presents its various claims of business, of social and political affairs. 

To make this view of the City of Worcester, its public liuildings, and its 
business at the close of the year 1886, worthy of the place and office suggested 
a brief resume of the past history of Worcester will be in order. 

This city, as is widely known from the illustrious nature of the occasion, 
celebrated in October, 1884, its Two Ilundrctb anniversary. It was not easy 
to fix upon a date, though the year was unquestionably established as that in 
which the infant settlonient recovering from the shock and waste of Indian 
war, the closing struggle of King Pbilip, entered upon the era of permanent 



2 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

occupation. It does not fully appear from the early chronicles how fully the 
first settlement, known as Quinsigamond, was wiped out. The first coming 
hither, took place in 1673. The Indian title was extinguished and honorably 
paid for and the work of occupation began with some vigor. King Phillips' war 
broke out in 1675. Tlie settlers were dispersed among the older towns, but 
there is reason to believe that to a greater or less extent the deserted planta- 
tions here were watched and visited from time to time by their proprietors. 
The town was again deserted in the invasion of the frontier settlements by 
hostile Albany or Western Indians in 1702, (eighteen years after the year 
observed in our recent anniversary celebration), and it was in that year thai 
Digory Sargent and his wife were slain in their cabin here, refusing to be 
driven away with their more cautious neighbors. 

All these facts of early history were considered in connection with the 
recent anniversary and while it left the matter in some doubt as to what partic- 
ular initial event should be chosen, the conclusion at last reached received uni- 
versal approval. Ihis date fixed upon was that of the official act of the 
General Court, naming the town WORCESTER, Oct. 15, 1684. 

The name itself is significant. Its selection came from stout friends of 
Cromwell, whose victory at Worcester, was so signal an event in the history 
of the mother country. The origin of the name is easy to trace. All English 
names ending in cester or caster, are clearly derivable from the Roman castra, 
or camp, and it may be readily conceived that a camp was in many instances 
the very natural germ of a town. In the case of English Worcester, the prefix 
is manifestly found in the old name of the province Wiccia. Worcester must 
obviously mean the Camp of the men of Wiccia. 

And in the language of Mr. Hoar in his noble anniversary oration : 

" The Puritan spirit and faith which founded Worcester two hundred 
years ago, have in the main controlled the currents of her history." 

Settled earliest as Quinsigamond, in 1673, first permanently founded 
and named Worcester in 1684, and nevertheless, only safely and securely be- 
gun in 1713, perhaps the future may allow the City of Worcester of one hundred 
and fifty thousand population, to seek out and with due pomp observe a new 
two hundreth anniversary lil the good year 191 i, only two years more than a 
quarter of a century hence, unless indeed the date be chosen thirty-six years 
from this present, the final and full incorporation, of the town of Worcester in 
June 14, 1722. 

The Worcester of to-day stands a marvel and mystery. How came a great 
manufacturing city here, remote from the sea board ? There is no water way 
by nature, and the Blackstone canal for the first time supplied the lack, in the 
brief canal period that preceded the railroad era. There are no natural re- 
sources or special facilities whatever, guiding to the results that have been 
accomplished. There was indeed some suggestion and hope of a Worcester 
coal mine, but it faded. There is absolutely nothing in the early days of 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 3 

Worcester that pronounced such future for the city, except the spirit and quality 
of the citizens of Worcester, and its continuance in those who have come after 
them. 

Yet we find one important reason why Worcester became a large manu- 
facturing centre. She has crystalized from the growth of her neighborhood of 
Worcester County itself; among the few counties in the United States leading 
the list in extent and variety of manufactures. The first settlers found this 
region full of available mill streams and made the heart of Massachusetts a 
hive of the industries of the early period, before the great factory system began. 
Saw mills, grist mills, fulling mills, forges, scythe shops, and nail shops have 
left their traces in deserted and crumbling flumes everywhere in our valleys. 
This manufacturing, Immble and restricted as were its lines, has been the 
fertile soil and stimulating force of invention that has from the first honored 
Worcester County through her sons; and Blanchard, Howe, Whitney and 
Bigelow lead a long list of the skillful men of genius widely known for their 
achievements. 

Worcester after the perils of nfancy had passed, became very early, from 
beauty of location, a favorite home for the prosperous, and a good theatre of 
action and enterprise wherein to invite prosperity. It is to be put foremost 
among the reasons for the beautiful and harmonious growth of Worcester, that 
from the outset, as a general rule, those who have won fortune's favors here by 
their skill and industry, have remained here to enjoy such fruits. It may well 
be stated once for all, an assertion to be well borne out in every stage of our 
liistory, that Worcester enterprises of every class have almost without exception 
been owned by Worcester citizens, and that Worcester's wealth, to a very large 
extent, indeed, almost entirely, has been earned here, in a city not only favor- 
able for wealth accumulation, but attractive for homes of every class. 

At the close of the last century. President Dwight in his New England 
tour, found Worcester a large and handsome village. He was particularly 
struck with tlie ample and handsome home living of her citizens in their broad 
mansions, surrounded by pleasant estates. " Such gardens," sighs one early 
writer, " as Worcester will never see again." The industrial life of that period 
was that of the village craftsman, who plied hand labor, a life of industry 
passed to their successors by the long and patient apprenticeship that left the lad 
at seven years end, the master of liis calling. But it is to be noted as historic- 
ally true that there was in that period, even in Worcester, an excessively 
strained aristocratic feeling, whose existence in this day is almost forgotten, 
whose existence in our day would be impossible. 

An incident told as happening within the lifetime of the narrator from 
whom the account is derived, is of this nature, and fully illustrates the caste 
distinctions of long ago. When chaises and covered vehicles were a luxury in 
this county, one of these chaises was owned in Worcester by a worthy man 
whose house near the north end of Main Street, stands among the few remain- 



4 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

ing landmarks of the early day. He kept a couple of vehicles for hire. It was 
his custom on a Sunday morning, to take his chaise and convey a venerable 
relative to morning worship at Rev. Dr. Bancroft's Summer Street Church. 
One Sunday he had just driven in front of the sanctuary to deposit his passen- 
ger, when a prominent citizen of the upper class of that period, thus accosted 
him with a vehemence of protest that made his shirt ruffles quiver. " Fine 

times we are coming to, fine times Mr E , when mechanics ride to 

meeting in chaises." Worcester has come to learn and believe that a success- 
ful Worcester mechanic can compass and enjoy pretty much all there is of the 
good things of this life. 

There was a prominence to Worcester merchandising in the early era. 
It was a good long haul saved from Boston and from Rhode Island seaports, 
and the Salisburys, and others of that time, the Salisburys principally, indeed, 
had a very widely extended area of traffic which went throughout New Hamp- 
shire and Vermont, well nigh to the Canada line. Our Lincoln Square in 
the early day was at times a most busy scene of teaming. Great wagon loads 
of merchandise hauled up from Boston, vast puncheons of rum casks of wine 
and spirits, the indispensables of the era before total abstinence began, bales 
of fabrics, bundles and crates of hardware and crockery, such as made up 
the " English and West India goods " assortment of the early merchant. And 
the Worcester store-keepers worked early and late to get off their country 
orders, that came from far and wide. 

The Blackstone Canal came into this first epoch of Worcester business as 
a needed venture to sustain the business interests of Worcester. It opened 
with cheap freighting the Rhode Island seaports of that time, when Newport 
was something different from the home of the fashionable butterfly. The 
canal was opened in 1828. It was a great event. At points along the Black- 
stone River where the Canal retains somewhat of its outline, it is easy for 
older citizens to summon back to view the actual presentment of the slow mov- 
ing barges that made this artery of trade famous and useful in its time. 

Then came the Boston and Worcester Railroad, pushed as a compulsory 
undertaking to save the trade of Boston. There had been indeed some talk of 
a canal connection between Boston and inland points, even as far as Albany, 
which should take in Worcester, and state surveys were made and are of 
record, to such end designed. 

Worcester was to receive from the north a channel through the river and 
pond system, with slack water and lockage that was amplified and described as 
one may see in the State reports of 1827. The railroad era changed all that, 
and the Boston and Worcester railroad opened in 1835, rang down the cur- 
tain on canal undertaking in this region. The railroad era had begun. 

Our railroad facilities solely have since builded up and maintained the 
great industry of Worcester. Of these industries as a whole, labor forms a 
principal part. A brief review of these industries will be in order. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 5 

What Worcester is to-day in her industries can be compactly told for the 
ligures are Ijefore us. A few words as to the beginning of her manufacturing era. 
We take a page from the records collected at the Bi-Centennial celebration. 

One of the earliest considerable nianul'acturing enterprises in Worcester 
was doubtless the association formea in 1780 for the purpose of spinning and 
weaving cotton. The first piece of corduroy was taken from the loom in April 
of tliat year. The factory stood on Mill Brook, near where now is the inter- 
section of School and Union Streets, where in 1790, Sanniel Hrazer was still 
making corduroy and " federal rib.'' 

At what is now Quinsigamond, Isaiah Thomas, in 1794, erected a paper- 
mill, later owned by Gardner Bur])ank, and which as late as 1834 was the 
Quinsigamond Paper Company, near what is now the Quinsigamond Wire Mills 
of the Washburn &Moen Manufacturing Company. In 1804 Peter and Eben- 
ezer Stowell were weaving carpets and plaids here, and at one time had six 
looms of their own invention and manufacture in operation. Abel Stowell was 
celebrated as a maker of clocks at the close of the last and opening of the 
present century. The town clock of the Old South Church, which did duty 
until a few years ago, was made by him in ISOO. There arc in this vicinity, 
several house clocks made by him still in use in families tliat greatly treasure 
them as heirlooms. There was in 1812 a small paper manufactory on the site 
of what was later the old Court Mills, on Lincoln Square. In the same year 
there was a factory for spinning cotton yarn and a fulling mill, by one Hale ; 
and Moses Clement set up a trip-hammer near where Coe's shop now is. 

All these last named were in what was known as Trowbridgeville, until in 
the year 1812, there was a joyous gathering which assembled at a flag raising 
and formally named the precinct New Worcester, and '• made a night of it " at 
Stearns' Tavern. At this time there was a grist mill at the Old Ked Mill, 
near where stands Crompton's Loom Works. From this time, until 1828, 
there was no particular growth to Worcester industries. 

The especial impetus of 1828 came iu the opening of the Blackstone 
Canal already referred to, maki)ig Worcester more than ever before a central 
point of trade, bringing heavy freights from the seaboard cheaply into the 
heart of the State, and opening an outlet never before offered for lumber, 
wooden ware and farm products. Stores and warehouses sprung up about the 
new canal basin in Worcester. 

In 18.36 there were in Worcester two mills for the manufacture of broad- 
cloths, six of satinets, one for cotton sheeting and shirting, two for satinet warps, 
one for pelisse wadding, two paper-mills, seven machinery works, a wire mill, 
and iron foundry, several manufactories of sashes and blinds, one lead pipe 
works, paper hangings, cabinet furniture, chairs, brushes, trunks and harnesses, 
ploughs, hats, shoes, watches, umbrellas, cutlery, piano-fortes, and wagons. 

Of this l)risk growth of 1836 it is recorded, that three hundred buildings 
were erected in this town within two years. There were ninety stores and 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



warehouses, twenty cotton, woolen and paper mills, employing over 1500 
workmen. It was in this year that William Lincoln brought out his History of 
Worcester 

From this period the industries of Worcester took their remarkable growth. 
No other city of the United States has so great a variety as Worcester of 
manufactureres of an important character, in proportion to its population, and 
again let us say, these are owned and managed here. The fact was referred 
to by ex-Governor Boutwell many years ago in a Cattle Show address in this 
city, as " a variety of employment which prevents any entire overthrow of 
business in years of depression." We give a compact list of Our Worcester 
Industries : 



Agricultural Machinery, 
Artists Plates, 






2 

1 


Art Publishing, . . . . 
Awls, .... 






2 
3 


Brass and Bronze, 






3 


Band Instruments, 






1 


Bale Ties, 






1 


Barb Wire Fencing, . 
Boots and Shoes, 






1 
U 


Breweries, .... 






2 


Bronzing Machines, 

Brushes, .... 






1 

2 


Building Contracts. 






4 


Cabinet Work, 






5 


Carders Tools, . 






2 


Card Clothing, 

Carpets, 

Carriages, .... 

Carriage Wood Works, 

Car Wheels, 






4 

2 
2 
2 
1 


Chemicals, . . . 






1 


Clothes Dyers, 

Coates Clippers, . 

Coffee Machinery, 

Confectionery, 

Copper Wire, 

Copying Presses, 

Corsets, .... 






2 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
2 


Cotton Thread, . 






2 


Cutting Dies, 
Drain Tiles, 






2 

3 


Emery Wheels, 
Elevators, 






1 
2 


Envelopes, .... 






3 


Files, ' . . . 






3 


Finger Nail Cutters, . 






1 


Fire Arms, 




4 


Folding Chairs, 




♦ 





THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



Indestructible Soles, 

Iron Manufactures, 

Iron Foundries, 

Iron Sash, 

Lasts, 

Leather Blacking, 

Leather Belting, 

Leather Machinery, 

Looms, 

Machine Knives, 

Machine Screws, 

Machine Tools, . 

Malleable Iron, 

Marble Works, . 

Metal Punching, 

Nickel Plating, . 

Organs, 

Organ Reeds, 

Paper Machinery, 

Perforated Metals, 

Presses, 

Railway Cars, 

Razors, 

Refrigerators, 

Reed and Harness, 

R. R. Frogs and switches, 

Satinets, 

Skates, 

Slippers, 

Soaps, . 

Steam Boilers, 

Steam Engines, . 

Steel, 

Tacke and Staples, 

Tapes and Elastics, 

Turbine Wheels, 

Twisting Machinery, . 

Type Writers, 

Wood Working Machinery, 

Watch Springs,. 

Water Meters, 

Wind Engine. 

Wire, 

Wire Goods, 

Wire Rope, . 

Wire Springs, 

Wood Turning, 

Woolen Goods, . 

Worsted Goods, 

Worsted Spinning, 

Wrenches, 



1 

1 

5 
2 

2 

1 

3 
1 
2 

3 
3 

15 
1 
2 
2 
3 
5 
3 
1 
1 
3 
1 
1 
1 
3 
1 
5 
2 
2 
1 
3 
4 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 

1 
2 
1 

2 

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2 
4 

2 

2 

3 

2 



8 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

THE WORCESTER 

MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, 

311 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. 
i3^ooxe.:poi^^^TEiD i^j^ir is, lasi. 

OFFICERS FOR 1886: 

PRESIDENT. 

KR^NOIS H. DEWEY. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

r. W. HAMMOND, EMORY BANISTER, 

J. EDWIN SMITH, A. B. R SPRAGUE. 

TRUSTEES. 

GEORGE E. MERRILL, BENJAMIN ZAEDER, 

STEPHEN J. WILCOX, SAMUEL E. HILDRETH, 

W. H. HACKETT, JOHN D. LOVELL, 

A. M. HOWE, EDWARD WHITNEY, 

JOHN H. COES, CHAS. F. WASHBURN, 

LEWIS G. WHITE. 

Treasurer: HENRY WOODWARD. Clerk: F. H. DEWEY, Jr. 

AUDITORS. 

G. E. MERRILL, S. J. WILCOX. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

F. H. DEWEY, EMORY BANISTER, T. W. HAMMOND, 

J. EDWIN SMITH, JOHN H. COES. 

FRANK W. CUTTING, Teller JOHN E. MORSE, Book-keeper. 

Deposits received daily, and placed upon interest on the Fifteenth day of 'January, 
April, July and October. 

Dividends payable on or after the 16th of January and July. 

Dividends not withdrawn are placed upon interest on the Fifteenth day of the next 
quarter day after they are declared. 

All taxes on deposits are paid by this Bank. 

Bank Open, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. Saturdays, Close at 1 P. M. 

OriK VaULTP SkCURKP BY CHHONOMKTKR LoCKR, 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 9 

The leading facts of this very striking list may be stated of follows : 

Wire employs nearly 5000 hands, with an annual product of $8,000,000. 

Boots and shoes 1")00 workmen, annual product 516,000,000. 

Woolen interests, 800 hands, annual product $3,000,000. 

Looms, 800 men, annual product $2,000,000. 

Machinery and Tools, 1500 men, annual product $8,250,000. 

Musical wares, 1000 operatives, annual product $1,500,000. 

Envelopes, 3,000,000 made daily, annual product $1,000,000. 

Fire arms, corsets, belting and skates, employ nearly 1200 men with an 
annual aggregate product of over $2,500,000. 

Worcester mercantile business has always been well represented in hand- 
somely maintained lines of trade, with an honorable past that carries not only 
the names of eniment merchants that have passed away, but of those whi have 
carried their enterprises to other cities, fl. B. Claflinthe late merchant ])rincc 
of New York, was formerly for years in business on Main Street. 

Worcester has seven national banks with an aggregate capital of $2,250,- 
000 ; Safe Deposit and Trust Company with $200,000, and four savings 
banks telling a good story for Worcester, thrift in their aggregate of over 
$19,000,000 accumulated savings. There are also two co-opeiative banks, 
each with $1,000,000 capital. 

The equipment of our prosperous city in the matter of the mental, moral 
and religious training of its people' could but be of the best character. 



10 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



THE CHURCHES. 

The religious bodies of the city comprise fourteen denominations ; the 
Congregational Unitarian leading the list with eleven churches. The next 
numerous in order are the eight Methodists, seven Roman Catholic, seven 
Baptist, three Protestant Episcopal, two Unitarian, two Universalist, the Free 
Baptist, Jewish, Christadelphian, Second Advent, Friends, Diciples, Lutheran, 
one each. 

The illustrations we give show the worthy character of Worcester Church 
architecture. 




First Univei'salist Church. 



This Society was organized in January, 1841, and during the first two 
years of its existence worshipped in Brimley Hall. Their first house of wor- 
ship was erected in 1843, at the corner of Main and Poster Streets, where it 
stills stands, having been for many years occupied for business purposes, and 
now, recently, as Continental Hall. Since 1871, the year of its completion, 
the place of worship has been in their handsome and commodious brick struc- 
ture on the corner of Pleasant Street and Church Place. The cost of the land 
and buildings was nearly 165,000. This church has one of the finest organs 
in the city, built by Steere & Turner, of Westfield, at a cost of $5,000. 



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Ail «aints Cliurcli. 
The leading parish of All Saints is a continuation of the first denomina- 
tional work of the Protestant Episcopal order first established in this city in 



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1835. Regul r services commenced here on Christmas day in 1842. The 
first All Saints structure, a handsome edifice after plans by Richard Upjohn of 
New York, was erected on Pearl Street, a little east of the present site of 
Plymouth Church. It was destroyed by fire on Easter night in 1875. Thus 
two of the days prominent on the church calandar are the marked events of 
their founding and their first catastrophe. The present elegant and striking 
edifice was erected on the corner of Pleasant and Irving Streets and dedicated in 
1877. The lot has a frontage of 140 on Irving by 150 feet on Pleasant and its 
ample area and fine exposure has been occupied by one of the finest church struc- 
tures in New England, the material being Longmeadow brownstone. The fine 
cut we give releases us from the necessity of describing. The Church and its 
adjoining chai)el contain two fine organs. The interior is finely conceived and 
finished. Messrs. ^Earle & Fuller of this city were the architects. 




Tlic Union Cliiii'ch. 



The Union Cliurcli stands third, in date of organization, as a peacealile 
olf-shoot from parent stock — the Old South — drawing also a part of its mem- 



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bers from the Calvinist, now the Central Church. Their first brick structure 
was built in 1836, on its present site, and was replaced in 1879 by the present 
more modern and commodious edifice. The solid encroachments of business 
improvements, in its vicinity, render it likely that its prominent and strong 
membership will, at no distant day, deem some other site more desirable. 




St. Paul's Church. 

This fine granite structure which yet awaits the completion of its tower, 
occupies a very commanding site on the corner of Chathatn and High Streets. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

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Work'was begun in 1868, and the main portion of the church was finished and 
dedicated July .4, 1876. It is of Gothic architecture after plans by Messrs. E. 
Boyden & Sons of this city. It has a magnificient auditorium. The grand 
organ by Johnson & Co., of Westfield, cost $7,000. Leading representatives 
of the Roman Catholic faith have added notable adornments, among these the 
superb windows on the east and west, and a marble statute of St. Paul, over 
the main entrance, the gift of Mrs. George Crompton. 




The Ceniiiil Chin'cli. 
This church organization an off-shoot from the Old South was originally 
known as the Calvinist Churcli. The late Daniel Waldo buift and gave to the 



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Society its first structure which was dedicated in 1823. It still forms a part 
of the old church building which has only recently been sold by this society. 
The new and beautiful structure occupies a fine site on Salisbury Street, a little 
north of Lincoln Square, on the corner of the Jo Bill road. It was built in 
188 1-5, and stands completed throughout as one of the best and most admirable 
of the church edifices of this state. The material is a fine brownstone. The 
tower carries the bell removed from the former structure. 




JPiyinoutli Oliui'cili. 
The fine granite Plymouth Congregational Church edifice occupies a fine 
outlook on the corner of Pearl and Chestnut Streets. This church was organ- 
ized in 1869 by off-shoots from other churches, and for several of the first years 
of its existence, worship was held in Mechanics Hall, where its strength grew 
until 1872 when a movement for a permanent church home was undertaken, 
resulting in the present fine structure. For a year or two the chapel of the 
new church was occupied for religious services. The completed structure, 
which has a seating capacity of 1500, was dedicated in the spring of 1875. 
The cost of the land and building was about $200,000. From the first origin 



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Collections made on all points in the United States and Canada. 

Small safes enclosed in Burglar-proof Cases, to which tte Renter alone has access, are offered to the public for rent, 
at prices varying from $15 to $75 each per annum. _ -,,,., 

It is a Place of Security against Fike or Burglars for depositing valuables of all kinds. 

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GIVEN. 



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Assistant Secretary, SAMUEL H. CLARY. 



President. 



DIRECTORS. 



Geoge M. Rice, of Worcester. 
George S. Bahton, " 
SuMMEK Pkatt, " 

Ben J. Walker, " 



Warken Williams, of Worcester, 
Adin Thayer, " 

John H. Goes, " 

HiKAM Fobes, ' 



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of t)ic church, until the present year, this church has known hut a single pas- 
torate. Tliere are, as we have stated, eleven Orthodox Congregational Churches 
in Worcester, some of which we illustrate. One of the handsomest of these, 
both externally and throughout, is the fine edifice of the Piedniont.huilt and ded- 
icated in mil. This church, in the period of its origin, was the twin of Ply- 
mouth, and by its location accommodates a large number of dwellers in the 
rapidly developing southern jmrtion of the city. 




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liiiiity M. li.- (Jliurch. 
The legal name of this organization is historic. The First Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Worcester, and it is the pioneer of its denomination in 
this city. The first edifice was built in 1836 at the corner of Union and Colum- 
bia Streets. In 1846 they built the Park Street Church, now occupied by the 
French Catholic Society, but it becoming too small for them a better location 
was secured on the corner of Main and Chandler Streets, and their present 
handsome structure was build in 1870. It has a seating ca))acity of 1500. It 
has a larger number of communicants than any other church of its denomina- 
tion in this State. 

The Old South Church. 

Sec Frontispiece. 

Let all towns and cities credit our [)ious, church-loving, church-founding 
Puritan ancestry with this fact that, in the majority of instances, the liberal 
first provision for the "Meeting-house Lot" and its appendages secured to 
their posterity all that we have of the public common. This was the fact in the 
instance before us. In 1719 a plain wooden edifice without a stee{)le was built 
on the present site of the Old South Church. The structure of to-day was built 
in 1763 at an expense of £ 1542 sterling, though it has been extensively modern- 



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ized. There was on the Main street front, in the olden time, a porcn from the 
roofof wliich tlie Declaration of Independence was read the first time in New 
England by Isaiah Thomas. The property interest of the Old South in its 
present site, has long been coveted by the city, and measures are in train for 
its purchase, so that the venerable church cannot much longer be retained on 
what is to become public ground 




V. M. C. A. BL'ILLING 



22 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN. 

AT 

25 HARVARD STREET. 
The next term ot Miss Kilham's Kindergarten, will begin Jan. 3, '87. 

Miss Kilham has made a study of Froebel's Sy^tein^of Educ ition, and has had. practical 

experience in teaching it. 

CHILDREN ARE ADMITTED FROM THREE TO SEVEN YEARS OF AGE. 

CHILDREN PREPARED FOR MISS HALSTEAD'S SCHOOL IF DESIRED. 

Froebel's Method of Education, includes a careful training of the puysicai. and 
SPKITUAL Natures, as well as the mental. The children are kept active and happy by 
progressive occupations, adapted to the development of all the faculiies. 

MISS HALSTEAD'S 
Private Scliool for Cliilclren, 

NO 9 JOHN STREET, (Two Doors from Harvard Street J 

Children received between the A^es of 5 and 12 

Toe (-'ourse of Study is intended to fit pupiN for liie lii^lier ijr.ides of ilie Public Scliools 
also for the first year of Mrs. Throop's School. 

Singing is taught by Mus. Su.m.mer, of tiie Worcester Cimnty Mn>*ic School, Drawing b/ 
Miss Uele.v F. Marsh, of the Stale Normal School, (ierman is also taught. 

APPLICATION MAY B3 MADE TO 

MISS EMILIE M. MALSTEAD, 

At the School-roooTL between Q aod 12, 

—AND A I- 

64 WILLIAM STREET. 

WORCESTiiR, MASS . Nov. l\ ISSii. 



FOR You:Na LAI3It:S. 

Careful Instruction in all English branches, and in French, German. 

and Latin. 

STUDEJfTS PREPARED FOR COLLEGE E X AMI J^ AXIOMS. 

Number of Pupils IliniteU. Two Boardlii? Pupils will be rtcelved. 

FOR CIRCULARS OR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS 

MRS. E. S. THROOP, WORCESTER, MASS. 



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THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 23 

Yonnp: Men's Christian Association, 

The first Young Men's Christian Association organization was established 
in Montreal in 1851. The first Association in the United States was formed 
in Boston during tl e same year. There are now nearly eleven hundred 
(10(36) of these Associations in the United States. They have extended to all 
parts of the world, and Young Men's Christian Associations are to-day to be 
found in North and South America, in Europe, Asia and Africa, and the 
islands of the sea. They are in operation in Turkey, Syria, India, Ceylon, 
China, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Sandwich Islands. 
The whole number of these Associations in the world is 3,372. They carry 
everywhere the same essential and foundation feature, the purpose to bring to 
young men, everywhere, the spiritual and social benefits of the Christian relig- 
ion in its influence on liome life, business, and pleasure. 

The Young Men's Christian Association, of Worcester, was organized in 
1864. It has, from the first, been hampered for accommodations ample and 
adequate for its associated purposes, though, for the most part, its various 
departments have been well cared for. It was ready to share the the spirit of 
tlie new era of its class of undertakings which began some years ago to mani- 
fest itself in the direction of creating p(>rmauent Association homes. To such 
an extent has this latter movement been carried that there are now ninety 
Young Men's Cliristian Associations wOiich have permanent buildings of their 
own expressly adapted to their u.ses. Some of these are very costly and beau- 
tiful metiopolitan structures. Tiie Worcester Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion building project readied a most happy conclusion in March, 1883, when 
it was made a fixed fact by the purchase of a fine lot on Pearl running through 
to Elm Street. On this is now being erected the noble building we illustrate^ 
the free gift of the Worcester friends of tiie Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, at a cost, for the building alone, of ill 0,000. 

Yovinji: Women's Christian Association. 

No better f)Iacc thnn right here, for a topic, literally a sister topic to the 
last in discussion. The emi)loymont of women and girls in various business 
capacities in our cities has, within the past few years, pressed strongly the de- 
mand for a vei-y similar movement to the work of the Young Men's Christian 
Association, ex|)ressly in behalf of young women. It can be easily seen how 
great and i)ressing the ajipcal, and genuine the value of such an enterprise. It 
is not a charity. It coiner to those who are not beneficiaries of the humblest 
class; but it does aim to supply to the youn^- woman thrown upon her own 
resources the encouragement, and shelter, iind helpfulness that have worked 
such excellent results in the instance of their hrotheis of Y. M. C. A. The 
certificate of organizatimi was procured October 26, 18H5, and the first annual 
meeting was held in riymouth Ciinpel May 26, 1886. They occupy three rooms 
at 352 Main Street, very jjlcasant and home-like, and every way auitable for 
the purposes of the Association. 



24 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



THE WOKCESTER SCHOOLS. 

Like fortresses at conspicuous points, posted against the advance of a 
public foe, five of the hill tops that enclose the Worcester valley are surmount- 
ed by prominent seats of learning. These are 

The Massachusetts State Normal School. 

The Worcester Academy. 

College of the Holy Cross. 

Worcester Free Institute of Industrial Science. 

Highland Military Academy. 

All of these have, by a long CvStablished career, won a high place among 
institutions of their class. 

In the more central portion of the city, the Worcester High School is 
conspicuous on its elevated site. 

Our public schools are of a very high order. It deserves to be kept per- 
manently on record that the plan and principle of the free grammar school was 
first made known and brought out in Worcester. 

By the census of 1885, it is shown that 13,000 of our population are of 
school age. from live to fifteen years, and the number of |)upils enrolled in the 
day schools is nearly equal to the school census This is a good showing for a 
total populaMon of from 69,000 to 70,000. Including the evening drawing 
schools and the drawing classes almost one-fifth of our population are enrolled 
in the schools of Worcester. The total co.st of this department of city ex- 
penditure for the past year has been f 207,990.6."), with an outlay of $6-5,467.72 
for new building-;, a-id it is estimated thit the demands of our growing popu- 
lation w'll call for not less than S!50,000 annually for this purpose. The corps 
of Worcester teachers numbers 267, of which it deserves to be stated, 184 are 
graduates of some Normal School. 

As a department at the head of our local school system the Worcester 
High School dcsei'ves especial mention. 

"Worcester High School. 

The present edifice dates from January, 1872, when it was opened for the 
reception of pupils. For years it was supposed to be entirely beyond any pos- 
sible need of the city in point of size, but for two years its seating capacity has 
been sorely tried, there being now more than 700 pupils enrolled. 

Worcester High School dates from January, 1845, when Elbridge Smith, 

a graduate of Brown University, took charge of the old Boy's Latin School 

whicli with the Girl's High School, formally occupied, in that year, the new 

building erected on the site of the present structure. This old High School 

building was, in its day, deemed the most elegant school house in the State- 



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Since 1871, it has been the Walnut Street Grammar School House, having 
been moved across to make room for the new building. This building in- 
cluding land, cost the city nearly a quarter of a million of dollars, and in ap- 
pointments and convenience has few superiors in the country. There arc 
fourteen rooms for pupils, besides a large hall capable of seating 800 people ; 
lecture room, apparatus room and laboratory, drawing room and library. Its 




apparatus is quite complete and is worth more than -13000. It has a reference 
library for the use of the pupils, numbering over 2000 volumes. In its hall 
and corridors may be found the pictures or busts of more than forty dis- 
tinguished individuals. Upon the walls in the first corridor are marble tablets 
bearing the names of the High School boys who lost their lives in (he 
War of the Rebellion. These are the gift of E. A. Goodnow and were 
erected in 1883. 

In front of the north tablet is a marble bust of General Grant, given by 
Mr. Goodnow, while before the south tablet is the figure of J. William Grout, 
also in marble, from his comrades in arms. Grout was the fust High School 
boy to lose his life in the army during the Rebellion. Mr. Andrew O'Connor, 
of this city, was the sculptor of both figures, while they and both of the tablets 
were executed through Evans <fe Co. 



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The life size painting of Wendell Phillips in the main hall is from H. 
H. Bigelow, -and is the work of E. H. Billings of Boston, as are also the por- 
traits of John Adams and Daniel Webster, suspended in the same room. One 
of these came from public spirited citizens in 1881, and the other, Webster's, 
from the Eucleia Debating Society in 1882. 

There are now in the scliool eighteen teachers besides the teacher of 
drawing and his assistant and the teacher of vocal music. In the second half 
of each year book-keeping is taught by an expert. Thus there are twenty-two 
teachers, in all, in the school. Its standard of preparation for college are the 
Harvard requirements, but its pupils go wherever they like. Amherst perhaps, 
drawing quite as many as any other institution. For several years past more 
pupils have gone to the Worcester Free Institute than elsewhere, and, just at 
present, the school may be considered the chief feeder of the "Tech." But 
college preparation is not the only business of the school. Its aim is to give 
every boy and girl a help along life's way, prompting them to remain as long 
as possible and to get, in the way of information, all they can ; thereby to be- 
come better citizens and better calculated to appreciate and enjoy the intel- 
lectual life. 

The Normal Scliool. 

The first Massachusetts State Normal School was established in the days 
oi Horace Mann at Lexington, and the present writer remembers it with a 
pang, for it gathered in a goddess of his youthful worship, leaving in his small 
heart a great vacancy, for she was twice his age, and three times his weight, 
and the Normal Schools have been picking up choice girls ever since. Our 
Worcester institution was established in 1871, and first opened to pupils in 
1874. The site occupied has a fine bold eminence at the gateway to Worces- 
ter on the eastern approach. The grounds cover five acres. It is a thoroughly 
noble and well appointed institution. 

Worcester Free Institute. 

This is an admirable outgrowth of the mechanical and inventive facts and 
tendencies of Central Massachusetts. The Free Institute was opened in 1868. 
It has been twice endowed l)y the State with a gift of '$oO,000 to further its 
purposes of giving a technical education, and the State receives free training 
for twenty pupils. To all eligible candidates, from Worcester County, the 
instruction is free. Its total funds amount to something over 1700,000. It 
has a full corps of competent teachers and is well equipped for its work. 

The Worcester Academy. 
" Academy Days," who does not remember them ? among the men 
and women whose hair is getting silvery about the temples, or is losing its 
" back numbers ? " Then came the era of the graded schools which, for pur- 
poses of convenience, chose to consider children all alike to be turned out at 
educational factories by the gross like clothes-pins. The academy is coming 



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steadily back to a very large class of those who desire an elective training 
carefully adapted to each scholar. The Worcester Academy stands to day 
among the first institutions of its class, in the land, for thoroughness of train- 
ing and for completeness of appointments as a boarding school. 

Miscellaneous Schools. 

Oua notices of the various educational facilities of Worcester would not 
be complete without adequate though brief reference to 

Miss Halstead's Private School for Children, 9 John Street. 

The Private Kindergarten, 25 Harvard Street. 

Mrs. Throop's School for Young Ladies. 

Mrs. Morgan's Private School for Children. 

These deserve enumeration to show that with our admirable public schools, 
and the high schools, there is, with tliese, a choice for parents and guardians 
among the select schools that have still their strong place and their excellent 
utility. 

The City Hall. 

See Frontispiece. 

Worcester has no great pride in the modest Municipal building but as 
one thrifty citizen reraai^ked, " It looks a heap better than a pile of city bonds." 
It was built as a Towr. ETall in 1824, and received an addition of fifty feet in 
1841. It became in due time the City Hall in 1848. For many yeai-s its 
entire upper stoi-y was occupied by what was the largest public hall in this 
region, the scene of many stirring events. It was the birth place of the old 
Free Soil Party, and its walls have echoed to the voices of Webster, Sumner, 
Wilson, Lincoln, and others. It was a gi-eat scene in the old days of the 
" Cattle Show," as the place of exhibition of marvellous quiUs, miraculous 
pumpkins, and other wondei's of their time. From time to time, changes and 
improvements have taken place, chiefly in th'fe interior arrangements. It 
would be hard to find a City Hall really more cosy and comfortable, though it 
is not architecturally magnificent. 

Court Hill. 

IjET us give you the secret of Main Sti'cet. In the early days it was 
forced closely in upon the foot of the hill whose crest is Harvai'd Street, by the 
fact that the whole ai'ca between what is now Main and .'~'unimer Streets was 
a morass covered with I'ceds, and in the winter a wide skating field, as octo- 
genarians I'emeraber. Thei'e was no thought that it could or would become 
di'y and habitable. First comers found a beaver dam and shot beavers at the 
south of Front Street. 

Main Street to be dry, had to be high, and this left its west side struc- 
tures pushed sharply into the hill-side. Thei'e were two places whei'c, to save 
a steep and impracticable cut, the carriage-way was made to divide at different 
grades, with a bank wall and railing on the main thoroughfare. One of these 



TTTEI CITY OF WOECFSTE^. 



31 



was what used to be occupied as " Nobility Row," cut down and abolished in 
the erection of the Jonas G. Clark block and 'the Knowles building. The 
other of these is Court Hill as it exists to-day. Bere, in the early days, was 
the handsome residence of Isaiah Thomas, and his printing office. The Thomas 
house is still standing, removed to the rear of the Court House The hrst 




Court House was built iii 1783, a humble affair near the present brick Court 
House. A second and larger for the same uses was built in 1751, and about 
1800 gave place to the present brick building completed in 1801. It has been 
enlarged and improved IVom time to time. In 1845 the present stone Court 
House, the wonder of its time, was built of Quincy granite. 

Meclianics Hall. 

When we used to traverse the streets of Worcester, very much brass- 
buttoned as to our apparel, and with a cloth cap greatly bedizened with braid 
and tassels, we used to look up with awe at a tall white house, the home of 
Daniel Waldo. All that we had ever read of David's palace, or the Alhambra 
paled into insignificance when we imagined the inside splendors of a house so 
big. Go round on to Waldo Street and you shall see the same great white 
house now l)Ccomc a modest hotel, yet it looked very large as a jirivate resi- 
doncc on Main Street. But in 185.'), about thirty years ago, the Waldo palace 
had to give way before the march of events, and the stately Mechanics Hall 
took its place, built l)y the Worcester Mechanics Association at a cost of 
$75,000. It is Justly the pride of Worcester. It is the home of the useful and 
honorable Worcester County Mechanics Association. Its walls are hung with 
fine portraits of Washington, Lincoln, Garfield, and Henry Wilson, with the 
portraits of Washburn, Wheeler, and other eminent citizens of Worcester, and 



S^ THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

W. H. JOURDAN. W. G. STRONG. VV. S. JOURDAN. 

W. H. JOURDAN & CO.. 

ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS 

COAL, 

Wholesale and Retail. 



FIRE SAND, CLAY AND BRICK. 

Offices : 

366 Main St., *"^ ^' Yard, Green St. 

WORCESTER, MASS. 

JHE SHOWALTER JVIGRTGAGE "QO. 

SEVEN PER CENT. KANSAS FARM MORTGAGES. 
Frijicipctl cuxd Trzterest GvLOjrcLTLtead. 



The Showalter mortgages are perfectly safe. 
They net the investor 7 per cent. 

They are guaranteed by a responsible corporation. 

They cause the purchaser no trouble whatever. 

They are paid, principal and interest in Boston. 
They are placed in what is conceded to be the finest agricultural section 
in the Union. 

The officers of the Company are familiar with every township in which 
we place mortgages. 

In a period of thirteen years, no investor has ever lost one dollar of 
principal and interest. 

For particulars inquire of 

CH AS. B. A^^HITING & CO. 

OFFICE: 415 MAIN ST., WORCESTER. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



33 



I 



they are continually saying to the good little boys of the heart of the Common- 
wealth, "Here's your place if you are truly good, and truly great ; here's a 
reward of merit worth having ; a portrait in our Worcester Valhalla." The 
main auditorium is one of the finest and largest in the State. 




Woi-cester Fi-ee Public Librai-y. 
It is to the loss of every resident of Worcester, whether youth or adult, 
possessed of the average degree of capacity, if such fail to appreciate and know 
the great public blessing this city possesses in its Free Public Library. It 
may seem strange, the expression of a fear lest some such there are, yet be 
fore now, some citizen has even been advanced to a place of public trust in city 
affairs, or some office in the gift of the voters of Worcester, and still has not 
been ashamed to own by act as well as assertion, that he has no appreciation of 
this great free treasure house of instruction and information The Free Pub- 
lic Library owes its originating gift and impulse to the late Dr. John Green, of 
this city, who, in 1859 gave his valuable library, of about 7,000 volumes, in 
trust to the city ; the collection to be known as the Green Library and used 
only within the building. The conditions of the gift were tliat the city should 
erect and maintain suitable quarters for library j^urposcs. Dr. Green's gift, 
which was valued at -110,000, was followed soon after by a gift of the whole 
library to the city by the Worcester Library and Lyceum Association. The 
library building, a snitable structure, as our illustration shows, was built by the 
city, and finished in 1861, at a cost of •f!ol,000. In 1865 a Free Reading 
Room was established by a fund of •'i'10,000, the contribution of public spirited 
citizens. The Green, or Reference Library, the Circulating Library, and the 
Reading Rooms constitute the Free Public Library of Worcester, at least its 



34 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



THE CITY 

NATIONAL BANK 

OF WORCESTER, 

Corner Main and Pearl Streets. 



Incorporated as a State Bank, 1854. 

Organized as a National Bank, 1864. 

Re-organized, June, 1884 



CAPITAL, 

S^ooooo 

SURPLUS, 

^lOO.OOO. 



President, 

CALVIN FOSTER. 

Cashier, 

HATHANIEL PAIHE. 




huh 



DIRECTORS. 
CALVIN FOSTER, 
LKWIS BAR\AI{I), 

L()i;l\(i COKS, 

WILLIA.M W. UICE, 

THOMAS M. ROGEIUS, 

WIIJJAM K. Rlf'E. 
Til EODOREC. BATES, 



t^/Lltl|^l^'5l^^-:^W^ AKTHURM. STONE, 




THOMAS H. GAGE. 



Asst. Cashier, CHARLES A. WILLIAMS. 

Book-keeper, FRANK RICHARDSON. 

DISCOUNT DAY, MONDAY. 



INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL DEPOSITS. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



35 



material outfit. But, as in too many other cases, this equipment would be a 
locked treasury only for the skill and care with which the LilM-arian and his 
assistants help the pur[)Oses of such a Library. Tiie mctliods pursued make 
the collection valuable to all seekers, from the children of our public schools 
to the wisest and ripest scholar. The city has been wisely lit)eral in its annual 
appropriations. The total number of volumes is nearly 60,000, with nearly 
three hundred periodicals in the reading room. The Worcester Free Public 
Library has a wide reputation both for its excellent collection and for its hand- 
ling by the Lil)rarian and his assistants. 




The Countj' Jail 

For the simjtler days of the early settlement, use was made of some den, 
cage or strong apartment in some one's private premises. One of these early 
cages was connected with the rear of Judge Jennison's house, near the present 
Court House. There was another in the rear of the liin of Deacon Daniel 
Heywood on the present site of the Bay State [louse. The first public Jail was 
built on the West side Mf Lincoln Street, near Lincoln Square, in 1733, the 
northerly part being built to accommodate the jailer and liis family. The 
building subsequently became the Hancock Arms Inn. In 1753 a new and 
more pretentious jail structure was l>uilt on Lincoln Square, on the present 
site of the Dean Block of Mr. Salisbury. This was succeeded in 17S8 by 
a massive granite structure, quite the pride of the county and one of the won- 
ders of the Commonwealth in its time. In 1819 a House of Correction, or 



36 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

JAMES G. WHITE, 

398 IVIain St., Cor. Pearl, 

Practical Dpholsterer and Draper, 




Manufacturer of 



FINE 



UPHOLSTERED 

Furniture. 



:i98 MAIi^J STREET, COR. PEARL 



HAIR MATTRESSES 



Made to 

Order and Made 

Over. 



Furniture Repairing 



In all its Branches. 



(Up one Alight.) 



S. R, LELAND & SON, 
MUSIC DKALKRS, 

446 MA^IN STKEKT. 



CHIOKERING & SONS' 

WM. KNABE & CO. 

HALLETT, DAVIS & 00. 

J. & 0. riSOHER. 

BEHR BROS. 

PIANOS. 

WORCESTER ORGAN CO 
NEWMAN. 
ORGANS. 



REPRESENTATIVES OF 

,^9HED /i^ Seven-Octave Pianos from $100 upwards 

>p Six-Octave Pianos from $25 to 
Organs from $40 upwards. 
Melodeons from $15 to $25. 
We sell on easy Monthly Payments. 




CHARLE5 MISSENHARTER. 



X, T 1 1 f CI <'T> T )> \.%J^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ r^ Pianos and Organs rented at low prices. 

R. Leland & Son, Eclipse," ^fQ d Q ESTE R, 
and "Ideal." *•., L 

MASS. Everything in the Musical Line. 



BAND INSTRUMENTS. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 87 

" County House," was built on the site of the handsome structure shown in 
our illustration. In 1832 it was extended and remodeled after the approve '. 
system of prison cells, and in 1 800 the Lincoln Square structure was dem( ' 
ished. A j)ortion of its massive i>ianitc can he seen in the walls of an unj)rc- 
tenning liusiness l)loclv on tlie North side of Front Street near the viaduct. In 
1873 the present jail, up to that time not very striking in proportions, was 
I'econstructed at an expense of -f 200,000. 







Union Raili'oad Station. 
Thk Boston and^Vorccster Railroad was opened to Woicester in 183;"), 
and found its terminus in the very clioicest heart of the town of Worcester, in 
Alfred Dwight Foster's garden, where the Worcester Bank Block now stands. 
This was near Main Street, on the opposite side of which was the noble man- 
sion of Governor Lincoln. Mr. Foster opened a street and converted his large 
brick residence into a hotel, perhaps most widely known as the American 
Temperance House, while Governor Ijincoln also res|)onded to the new era, 
and made over liis homestead to the march of improvement, and it was best 
known throughout its earlier years as the Worcester House, now the Lincoln 
House. The original Worcester Station of the Boston and Worcester accom- 



88 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

F. A. HARRINGTON. D. A. HARRINGTON 

HARRINGTON & BRO., 

Metropolitan Stables and Shops, 

St, 33 AND 35 CENTRAL STREET, 

WORCESTER, MASS. 




CARRIAGE. T- ACT DRY ! ,! |' 



U^METROPOUTAN ST A 3 L tTS . , , ii, , jSM-.-.'.a 'B{ ■ Mffl 1 11 -. , -. A- 2^)=-^- ,- o r ^' '!'' 



IIYERY, HACK, AND BOARDING STABIES. 

GOOD TJEAMS AT FAIR F RICES. 

The best of care given to Boarding Horses. Any one wanting Hacks for Parties or 
Funerals sliould get our prices before engaging elsewhere. 

OUR OFFKT (^ON.XECTED WITH THE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE. 

CARRIAGE SHOPS. 

Repairing of aU kinds at reasonable rates and in a 
thorongh manner. . 

We lieep Firsl-Class Workmen, therefore are sure to give satisfaction. 

PAINTING h. VARNISHING, 

Also, HORSE SHOEING. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



39 



modated also the Norwich and Worcester, which found entrance by the well 
remembered track across the Common, and also the Providence and Worcester, 
the latter for a limited period until the completion of the Providence Depot at 
Green Street. The Foster Street Station was also used by the Nashua road, 
and was thusfor a time avery genuine "Union Station" in advance of the adop 
tion of the plan in other towns and cities. In primitive days a bell on a tree, 
at the corner of Main and Foster Streets, gave warning of the departure of 
trains. But there was this inconvenience, from the outset, attached to the 
Foster Street Station. It was strictly terminal, and brought all trains to a 
final halt, with no other than a reversed movement for exit. Wlicn the 
Western Railroad was opened from Worcester to Springfield and Albany, it 
was necessary that the passenger station should be on its line, and this was 
the beginning of the depot feature of Washington Square, where many re- 
member the old wooden passenger house. 

The Union Passenger Station is now one of the most elegant structures 
of the kind in this country. The building is 250 feet wide and 450 feet long ; 
its essential cliaractcr being well shown by the illustration we give, wliich 
shows the West front from which depart trains for the West, also for Norwich 
and for Providence. The North side of the station, as shown gives tlie place 
of exit from the building for the trains of the Fitchl)urg and the Boston and 
Maine. The Union Station was built by the Railway Com()anies in combina- 
tion, and was formally opened in 1875. 




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A 1 1 1 1 < I u ; 11 • 1 a 1 1 I I ; » 1 1 . 
The " past at least is secure," is the motto of the American Antiquariah 
Society. It is fortunate that the past lias had for the period since 1812, such 
faithful and excellent representatives of collection and conservation as the 



40 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

PINKHAM & WILLIS, 

DEALERS IN 

Kiiriiiture ^nd Carpets. 

OFFKR A L^RGE LINE OF 

o<FANGY FURNITURE^ 

EMBRACING 

PARLOR CAHIVETS, PEDKSTAl.S, 

MUSIC CABINETS, EASELS, 

ANTIQUE DESK-, FANCY CHAIRS, 

ORNAMEMl'AL POTTERY, RISQUE FIGURES, 

PARLOR LAMPS, BRONZES &c . &c. 

MATTAN FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. 

Our Prices the Lowest. 

351 MAIN ST., WORCESTER. 



William E Sav>/ telle, 

:iOO JIA1\ SIHEET. 

Blani{ Bogies and S^pationei^y. 
gold pens, stylographic pens, fountaim pens. 

FOUND AT LAST THE 

THE BEST FOEi^TAIN PEN MADE. 

Sure to write every time. 

For CHRLSMAS GOODS, doift fail to examine the large ASSORTMENT 
of New and Attractive Goods at 

390 MATTSr STRKET. 

GAZETTE BUILDING. Between Elm and Peail Sts. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



41 



Society affords. It is liased on the munificent gifts and far-seeing wisdom of 
Isaiah Thomas, wlio in the act of incorporation was associated with twenty-five 
otlier licntlcnien. a hoard wha liave named their own successors. The library 
now numbers over 10,000 vohimes, and is continually being enriched by valu- 
able additions. There is also a large collection of antiquities and curiosities, 
though the literary and bookish feature has been kept piedominant. The view 
shown gives the front on Main Street, on the corner of Highland, the North 
access to the public structures is on Couit Hill. 






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The City Ho>spital. 

Ouu illustration of the City Hospital represents an institution of which 
Worcester may well be proud The buildings, with their appointments, cost 
nearly $80,000, and are widely known and recognized, in comparison with 
those other institutions of a like class, as representing the best advanced fruits 
of hospital service. Tbe hospital was established by city ordinance, passed 
June 26, 1871, when an api)roi)riation of -"JIO.OOO was made by the municipal 
government, and the first temporary accommodations were provided in the 
Bigelow mansion on Front Street. The present permanent (juarters are lo- 
cated on the munificent Jacques gift of three acres of land on the south side of 
Prince Street. Mr. Jacques made the gift, for this express purpose, in March, 
1872, on conditions with whicli the city has strictly complied. He died in 
August of the same year, leaving a very large share of his property to the city 
for hospital purposes. The view shown is the Prince Street front. The medi- 
cal staff comprises three consulting and twelve visiting physicians. The sec- 
ond stories are used for paying patients, all others being accommodated iu the 
public wards. 



42 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



WORCESTER, MASS. 

The Only Theatre in the City, 

Centrally Located on Exchange St., 

Adjoining ttie Bay State House. 



PERFECT IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS 




CHARLES WILKINSON, 

SOLE MANAGER AND PROPRIETOR. 
PllE.SEXTS NONE BUT 

TICKETS FOR WHICH ARE ALWAYS 

SOLD AT THE BOX OFFICE 

Three Days in Advance. 

Saturday Matinees a Feature. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



43 




The Soldiers' Monument. 

The visitor to Worcester Common will 1)C intcrOstcd to know that this 
open tract was from the first settlement set apart for meeting-house purposes. 
At the eastern end the old original huryinLT-trround remains a place of hnrial 
still, the surface being levelled, and the slabs laid down upon the graves they 
respectively mark. On the level and smooth turf above these " forefathers of 
the hamlet," the children play, and the tides of our busiest life el)b and flow 
through the adjoining streets, while undisturl^ed is the dreamless sleep of those 
who quietly rest beneath nature's green sod. 



44 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

FIRST NATIONAL 

FIRE mSURAMCE COMPANY. 

PRESIDENT, ^^'-'^'^'-r ^' ^ mWWE'&M 

CHAS, B.PRATT, B^^a "^ first 

V. PRES. & TREAS. 

R.JAMES TATMAN 

SECRETARY, 

GEO. A. PARK. -MA^*^^- ~^>-^> BUILDING 




NATIONAL 
BANK 



405 MAIN STREET, 
P^ORCBSTBll. » = « MASS 



36 FRONT STREET. 

CHINA & CROCKERY DEPARTiMENT. 

Onr Stock Complete! Assortment Large and Attractive. 

Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Silver Sets, Milk Sets, Plate Sets, Cups and Saucers, Dessert Plates, 
Toilet Sets, in all the N west Decoratioi s and Shapes. 

In Vases and Bric-a Brae we have a very large Assortment, worthy the inspection of all. 

SILVERWARE. 

Casters, Cake Baskets, Card Baskets, Pickle Knives, Forks, Spoons; many of tlieni in 

Cases, making Nice Presents. 

BRASSWARE. 

Umbrella Stands, Candle-sticks, Smoking Sets, Tea Trays, Crumb Pans, Match Safes, &c., &c. 

LAMP DEPARTMENT. 

Our Stock as Large as any in the City; we will except No One. Library Lamps, 50 Styles; 

Parlor Lamps, 50 Styles; Hall Lamps, Kitchen, Shop, Factory and 

Store Lamps of all kinds, Lanterns, &c. 

HOWE'S 36 Front St. 



TEE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



45 



No more appropriate place could have been louiid for the Soldier's Monu- 
ment, erected l)y the city of Worcester in honor of her soldier dead, slain in 
battle during the Great Rebellion, or victims of the exposures of the war, the 
prison, the hospital, from privation, wounds or disease. The monnment is a 
noble and worthy work, executed from the design of Randolpli Rogers of Rome, 
and the statuary was cast at Municli. The bronze memorial plates carry the 
names of 397 fallen soldiei's representing Worcester homes. To the South and 
East of the Soldier's Monument stands tlie white marble monument erected 
by a descendant of the hero, to the memory of Col. Timothy Bigelow of Revo- 
lutionary fame, a patriot of his time, notable and noble. This monument 
though we do not illustrate it, deserves to be coupled in mention with the 
former as worthy to stand lieside it. 




For the |)rescnt. tbc Worcester Post OITice occupies a private Itluck, but 
the accommodations are excellent and pul)lic service well cared for. The pros- 
pect of an even more centrally located pul)lic buihling, at no distant day. to 
accommodate the Post Otlice, is very promising. 



46 



THE CITY OP WORCESTER. 



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• Shobt Quotations fbom Nathaniel Paint's Random Recollections 

OP Worcester. 

Nathaniel Paine contributes to the collections of the Worcester Society of 
Antiquity some account of people and buildings in Worcester forty or more 
years ago, and by the United States Census of 1840, it appears that Worcester 
was then a town with a population of only 7497. 

Many will recall 1840 as a year of great political excitement, occasioned 
by the presidential campaign of Harrison and Tyler, or as it was called, "Tip- 
pecanoe and Tyler too," — the days of log cabins and hard cider. 

The excitement in Worcester, between the two political parties, was in- 
tense ; and on the 17th of June, Ihe anniversary of the Battle of Bunker's 
Hill, one of the largest and most exciting political conventions ever held in tlie 
State took place here. It was called by the Whigs for the purpose of nomina- 
ting a candidate for Governor, and the choice of presidential electors, " Honest 
John Davis," of Worcester being nominated by acclamation as the candidate 
for Governor 

A log cabin, one hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and a flag-staff, the 
top of which was about one hundred feet from the ground, were erected on 
Grove Street, near the Wire Works, about the present location of the Wash- 
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company's offices, perhaps a little farther South. 

Cannon were fired and bells of the churches rung in the morning l)efore 
the opening of the convention. A procession was formed on the Common and 
streets in the vicinity, and marcliing under a handsome arch erected by the 
Whigs of the town, passed down Main Street to the log caliin, the buildings 
along the line of march being decorated with flag.s and l)unting, and the win- 
dows crowded with spectators. Col. John W. Lincoln was the chief marshal, 
and headed the procession, which is said to have been over a mile in 
length, and included delegations from all parts of the State. Log cal)ins 
drawn l)y horses, and liarrels of cider, were prominent in the procession ; and 
there were five barouches, each drawn by four horses, for the soldiers of the 
Revolution. Many of the devices on the banners carried by the various 
delegations would, perhaps, be of interest to you l)ut I will mention only a few. 
The Worcester County banner had as a device the arms of the County in 
ll^A : a deer, with the inotto " Not Slow." Part of the Barrc delegation were 
on horseback, and were dressed in black coats and white pants, with a log 
cabin button on their hats as a cockade. Their band was in a stage-coach, 
with a l)arrel of hard cider on the rack liehind, marked "Oil Korrect." The 
Sterling and Southbridge delegations had three log cabins, each drawn by six 
or eight horses. 



48 



THE CITY OP WORCESTER. 

Huiiounrcmrnt. 



Barnard, Sumner & Company, 

327 & 329 MAIN STREET. WORCESTER, MASS. 



WORCESTER 




Dry Goods and Carpets 



"ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 



Depaj'tments Full, Fresh, and Attractive, Popular Low Prices Maintained on 

all Goods. ,yo Store Undersells its in this City or Boston. 

Jfo Store Shows a Finer Selection. 

<§iH[ss Paliin^, tflaali llahintj and IlilliiierD, 

In Charge of Artists of High Repute. 

Ladies' Waiting Parlor and Toilet on Second Floor, near the Elevator. 
Samples Sent with Prices, and Parcels Forwarded hi/ Mail at Trifling Cost 

MADAME DEMOREST'S PATTERNS. 

Our Store is greatly improved, by Xeiv Departments, Better Boom and Light, 

and more Popular and Quick Selling Bargains every Season- 
To facilitate afternoon shopping our Store is lighted with Electric Lights. 

BARNARD, SUMNER & CO. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTEK. 49 

Forty-four years ago, there stood a few feet to tlie south of the Worcester 
Bank Building, the first depot of the Boston and Worcester raih-oad. It was 
a long wooden Iniilding, very plain externally, and almost equally so in the 
interior, with an entrance for passengers at the west end, the trains leavino- 
from the east end. My recollection is, that at first there was no ticket office 
but that the fare was collected on the train. As late, however, as 1839-40 
a ticket office was probably established in the building. What we remember as 
the Foster street depot was completed in the spring of 1840, the old one being 
then removed to the south side of the new building, to be used by the Norwich 
and Worcester railroad. 

The usual way for foot passengers to go to the depot from Main street, was 
by a passage way between the building at the corner of Foster street and that 
occupied by Levi Clapp as a hat store, about where the cigar store of 0. P. 
Shattuck now is. In the crotch of an elm tree west of the depot and near the 
Clapp store, was suspended a bell, to be rung befoi-e the departure of trains. 
This practice of calling attention to the time trains were to start by ringing a 
bell was kept up for many years after the second depot was erected. 

BUSINESS OF MAIN STREET, BETWEEN FOSTER AND MECHANIC STREETS IN 1840. 

No. 207. f Blanchard & Lesure 18.39 ( Emory Washburn 1840 

I Lesure & Wygant 1840 No. 202. ] Charles W. Hartshorn 1840 



205. { F. VV. Eaton & Co 1841 ( I- M. Barton . 

I J. P Southgate & Co 18.38 ^ j. p, ^ettell * Co 1835 



203. I W.D.Lewis 1839 1 J B.' Tyler & Co. .:: i: :: i." :: ! :i841 

201. Lakin&Bemis 1840 " ' 1 J. H. Hickett 1841 

, „ I M. B. Green 

fH.Sabin&Co 18.38 )„ Trni k i ,c,« 

199. Leonard* Tyler 1839 H. II. Chamberhn 839 

1 J B Tvler & Co 1840 ' •^- F'^t^her 1?40 

(J. ti. lyiercv. co i»4U ^^^^ j j^ Uartwell 1840 

1Q., 5 E. F. Dixie* Co 1840 I ^- ^^- Mann* Co 

^^'•1 Caleb Newcomb I J- II- Everett 



(JamesH. Wall 1840 ^^«- William Lincoln 1836 

195. ? William Coe 104 I Francis Blake 1836 

(John Warden 1841 " ' ( Bufman * Burt 1842 

1^3 <C.C. Clapp 1840 f Diml^r( R. D.). Bigelow(John) 

is. P. Fitch 1842 l92.^)unlK^r•&sto;y::::•.::::::::::l838 

191. Levi Clapp 1840 | Nathaniel Tead 1840 

i. Handy, Luther & Co 1842 

ISO J Nathan Ilarkness 1839 f S. M. Burnside. 1840 

189. J bimeon Thompson 84 1 ^,.^^^i, ^ e^.^^sou 1839 

(A. M. Driscoll 1841 'i^'M National .Kgis 1840 

185. Henry Scoit 1839 [ (). U. Blood, M. D 1840 

183. Jabez Bigelow 1839 i88. | ^; % f ^^ ^^^l' ; ; ; ; ; • • ■••;;; ; Jg" 

204. W. & A. Brown 1835 [ D. Ileywood 

Coming from the depot to Foster street, which liad liocn opened al)Out 1835-6 
l)y Hon. A. I). Foster, we should see the south side of the American Temper- 
ance House, with its long portico extending the wliolc length of the building. 
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him before he l)uilt the present family mansion on Chestnut street. In the 
basement, with an entrance under the side portico, was the shop of John Morey, 
the colored barber, well known to residents of Worcester twenty-five or thirty 



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PRICE LIST OF FOREHAND & WADS WORTH BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN. 

12 Bore. Fine Twist Barrels, no cn,<2;ravin<2;, .... oO.OO 
!<• Bore. Fine Twist Barrels, no enoi-avin<j-, . . 55.00 

The same, with good line engraving, extra, .... 5.00 

Fine Damasons Steel Barrels, with extra work to correspond, 

will rnn from .... ■i'25.00 to il 00.00 extra 




Fire-Arms iVI ami factory of Forehand & Wadsworth 



Wk also mannfactnrc Single Barrel ni-eei^Ii-Ijoading Shot (xuns. They 
are too well known how(>v('r to ncid niiidi snid idiout tlicni. tliev are 
acknowledged l»y all dealers and sportsmen to he the liest gmi of the 
kind in the market. Our new Antomatic Shell- I'jecting Double-Action 
Revolver is the most complete arm of its kind in the market Its sym- 
metery, excellence of workmanship, and ease of manipulation, are a 
marvel of success. 

Send for Price-Lists and ('ircnlni-s. Address, 

FOREHAND & WADSWORTH. 

\V(ji{(;es'1'ku, ma.s.s. 



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THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



FDRNITDRE! BEDDING! CARPETS! 

Have resumed Business in the New and Elegant 

PARLORS, 




CHASE BUILDING, 

44 FRONT ST., 

\ Doors west of liiion Churcli, Mnd 
over the 

BAY STATE CLOTHING CO., 

W'liere they will be [)repared to serve 
all their old patrons and lots of new ones 
and make low prices for any goods 
wanted to furnish any room in the house 
or office. 

Having a landlord who demands 

NO BENT THIS WINTER, 

we shall give our patrons the benefit of 
the very low prices we can afford to make 
in consequence. OUR OLD STOCK, 
after the fire on our premises, being so 
badly damaged as to be luifit for the trade, was disposed of at auction, and wc resume business with an entire new stook. 









LIBRARIES, 
DINING-ROOMS, 

KITCHENS, 
CHAMBERS, 

OFFICES, 

FURNISHED AT 

VERY LOW PRICES, 

FOR CASH, 

OR EASY TERMS OF 

PAYMENT. 



N. A. HARKIJSraTON, 

Fire Insurance Agency. 

Policies written in the best Stock and Mutual Companies, 

AT THE 

LOWKST POSSIBLK RATES, 



ALL LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. 

ROOM 15 CLARK'S BLOCK. 

492 MAIN ST., WORCESTER, MASS. 



TAKE THE ELEVATOR. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 53 

years ago. A Mr. Stratton also had a clock store in the basement, with an 
entrance from Foster Street. On the Main Street front was a double portico, 
giving the house quite an imposing appearance. 

LIST OF TAVERNS IN WORCESTER IN 1837, WITH THE NAMES OF THEIR LANDLORDS. 

Lincoln Square Hotel, J. Fessenden. 1839, Nathaniel Stearns. 

Summer Street House, Samuel Banister. 

Exchange Coffee House, Samuel B. Thomas. 

Eagle Hotel, David Bonney. 1840, George Hobbs. 

Central Hotel, Zorrester Bonney. 

American Temperance House, Eleazer Porter. 1840, R. W. Adams. 

Worcester House, Lysander C. Clark. 1840, Henry Gould. 

United States Hotel, William C. Clark. 

Washington Square Hotel, William R. Wesson. 

As we came from Foster Street to Main Street, we should see as now on 
our right, and nearly opposite the Temperance House, the block erected by 
Benjamin Butman, known as Brinley Block. In the third story was a hall to 
which the same name as that of the block was applied ; this for many years 
was the most desirable and popular place in town for lectures, concerts, exhi- 
bitions and dances. 

Here were held the famous cattle show balls, for many years considered 
as an important auxiliary to the show, which were attended by the elite of the 
town and prominent visitors who came to take part in the agricultural exhibi- 
tion of the day. The hall was, to my mind, much handsomer than it is at pres] 
ent. Then the large wooden pillars on each side of the room gave it a very 
imposing appearance ; the floor, too, was laid on springs, thus making it 
especially desirable for dancing. 

In 1840 the Spy advertised as on exhibition at Brinley Hall, a grand mov- 
ing diorama of " Washington Crossing the Delaware;" "The Garden of Eden 
before the Fall, in which Adam and Eve were discovered before the Tree ol 
Knowledge," (fee. " Fowls of the air, aquatic birds and beasts, pass and 
repass, all giving life and helping to adorn this scene of domestic happiness." 
The " Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown " was also exhibi- 
ted here with realistic etTects. This, I remember, was highly ajjpreciatcd by 
the more youthful meml)ers of the audience. It was, probal)ly, this exhibition 
that Mr. John B Gough refers to in his interesting autobiography; from which 
it seems he was an important auxiliary in producing tlie dioramic elTccts. He 
says: "One part of my business was to turn the crank in bringing on the 
troops in the Battle of Bunker Hill;" another part " was to lie on my back 
duringthc bombardment of Charlestown, and while one man worked the figures 
at the guns, I was, at a signal, to aj)ply a match to some powder I held on a 
piece of tin, for the flash, when another man struck the big drum for the report; 
often the report came before the flash, and sometimes no flash at all." 



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THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



MRS, E. K. MORGAIST'S 

PRIVATE SCHOOL, 

25 ELM STREET. 

P^or Children from -4 to 14 years old. 
BEST METHODS, THOROUGH TEACHING. 



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UNDER COMPETENT INSTRUCTORS. 

SCHOOL OPEN TO VISITORS ON WEDNESDAYS. 



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REFERENCES 



MRS. WM. H. MORSE. 
MRS. G. HENRY WHITCOMB. 
KEV. C. M. LAMSON. 
MR. CHAS. A. CHASE. 



MRS. NEWELL TURNhR. 

MRS. H. M WITTER. 

DR. A. P. MARBLE. 

MR. ELLIS PETERSON, of BostOIl. 



ESTABLISHED 1815. 

^• ^ M ' % PUBE DRUGS AND MEDICIMES. 

FINE TOILET ABTICIES 




223,000 

prescriptions, 

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CHOICE PERFUMERY. 



PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. 



©reac^ (#n^tlfufe ^or ^oung "bailie):^. 

Established in 1848 

JOHN ALDEN THAYER, . Principal. 



School opens, Sept. i6. 
First Tenn ends, Dec 2 



C A.IL.'BIISTID A.~R 1886 87. 

Second Term begins, Jan. 6. Third I'erms begins, -April 7 

" ends, M. arch 30. Commencement, June 8. 



For Boarding-Pupils, including board, use of furnished room, light, heat, washing (12 plain pieces of clothing, 4 toilet 
napkins and 4 towels, 2 pillow-cases, and i sheet,) and tuition in all studies of course (modem' languages alone accepted) 
together with church sitting, use of reading-room, library and lectures, for school year, $350. 

Tuition for Day Scholars, per year, $75. Tuition for Day Scholars, per year, college preparatorj', $100. 

French, per year, $30.00. German, per year, $30.00. Music, Vocal, (one lesson a week) $60.00. 

Music, Instrumental, (one lesson a week,) $60 00. Painting, (per lesson,). $1.00. 

1^^ Bills payable in advance at the beginning of each term. 
Al tffcitr.l (.cijs EfNin tcEclers employed. Building heated by steam, and well furnished. Improved sanitary arrange- 
n Ills li.At Ittn ii lucLttd. A quiet, chttrfvil and beautiful heme. Easy of accesi from all parts of the city or country. 



TBE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



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Turning to the south on Main Street, at our right was the Worcester 
House, with a circular driveway loading to the portico witli its large wooden 
pillars, ami a yai'd in liont filled with horse chestnuts and othei' sliade trees. 
On the south side were beautiful large elms, the last of which was rcnuivcd a 
few years ago by Mr. James II. Wall, then the owner and landlord of the Wor- 
cester House. 

Many years later the late Oovernor Levi Ijincoln came into possession of 
the property and erected a brick dwelling house, occupying it for several years 
until he built the Ijiucolu mansion on Elm Street, now owned by Ids grandson, 
Mr. Waldo Lincoln. In 1>i-4 the Maripiis dc Lafayette was the guest of. Judge 
Lincoln in this house, as were afterwards many other distinguished men, who 
undoubtedly ap|»reciatcd the generous hos))itality for which their host was no- 
ted. Tln' house and srrounds immediately surrounding it came into ihe bands 
of David T. iirigham about the year 183o, who converted it into a hotel, and 
he was lor a time its landlord. He added winiis on each side of the house, as 
shown in the large lithogiaph of the Worcester House |iublishe<l in liS37 or 8. 
At this time Lysander C. Clark (brother of William C. Clark) luad become the 
landlord, ami remained there for three or four vears. 



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66 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

ESTABLISHED IN 1822. 



T^tie G. G. Btirbank: 
PHARMACY. 

ass JMi^Liisr ST., Worcester, mass. 

Drugs, Chemicals, Toilet Articles 

And all Goods usually kept in a well-stocked Drug Store. 

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS. 

A. E. WORTHEN, Manager. 



H. F. ROSS, GEO, E. MILLER'S 

DEALER IN 

Upholstered Bathing and Hair Dragging 

Furniture, ' iesooi^s. 

FIRST-CLASS WORK AT , nine fikst-€Lass artists. 

REASONABLE PRICES. 

271 MAIN street; ^^« "-'^ street, up sta.ks, 



WORCESTER, MASS, 



Over 
KiNNicuTT's Hardware Store. 



WORCESTER, MASS. 



338 Spectacle Depot Established 1858. 338 

STOCKWELL & PRATT, 

-->^OPTIGIANS^ 

A.dapt GMasses after an Examination of the Eye* 
DIFFICULT EYES A SPECIALTY. 

Satisfaction guaranteed. Artificial Human Eyes inserted and made to order. 

RBMB.MBRR THE PL..4CE. 

33Q l>^^liOL St., T77"orcester, ^vCo^ss. 

I. H. STOCKWELL W T. PRATT. 

338 USE PROPER GLASSES. 338 



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STATE MUTUAL 

LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 

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COMPANY'S BUILDING, 240 MAIN STREET. 

ORGANIZED (845. 

The policy holders constitute the Company, own its assets, and, 
by officers of its own election, manage its affairs. 

All its polices are Protected from forfeiture by a statute of the 
State. 

Its accumulated funds exceed by more than a million and a half dollars the 
combined capital stock of all the seven National l>anks in Worcester. 

All policies issued by this Comj^any participate in the annual dividends of 
surplus. 

Life Rate endowment policies are issued at all insurable ages. 
Cash Surrender and Paid Up Values fixed by the Laws of Massachusetts. 



A. G. BULLOCK, President. 



H. M. WITTER, Secretary. 



68 THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 

Wasburn & Moen Manufacturing Company. 

For over fifty years the manufacture of wire has been one of the industries 
of Worcester. The story has often been told of the founder of the Washburn & 
Moen Manufacturing Company, the late Tchabod Washburn, wliose attempt to 
help realize what was then itself only a half developed industry, the manufacture 
of wood screws, led him forward into equal steps of advance in the ])roduction 
of iron wire. Up to that time wire had been drawn by a slow and 
expensive process, which prevented the extensive use of the article. These 
Worcester improvements and inventions brought machine drawing to perfec- 
tion. To show the perfection even of the early process, it may be said that 
Mr. Washburn and Mr. Chickering worked together for the production in 
Worcester of the piano wire that made the first fame of the Chickering piano. 
The demand for wire for electric purposes waa met l)y Worcester wire, and for 
the whole period since tlie introduction of the telegraph in this country Wash- 
burn & Moen wire has held foremost place. For another extensive employ- 
ment in a wire utility, the use of wire for fencing purposes deserves to be 
mentioned. There are now in the United States nearly a million miles of 
barb wire fence, about one-fifth of the whole amount of field fence in use, and 
for this also this company's product, and the patents held by them, has secured 
to them one of their large specialties. 

Beyond these two principal classes of product there are upwards of one 
hundred varieties of wire contributing to other manufactures. A few years 
ago a marked impetus was given to the wire business by the adaptation of 
Bessemer, or a low steel , to a multitude of the uses for which iron had been 
employed, and steel wire of all varieties has become a very large product in 
these works. 

For many years the wire employed in the telegraph service was. as for a 
very large share of the equipment it still remains, a very carefully manufactured 
article of iron, the best known to the trade as E. B. B. But with the adoption 
of higher speed and multiplied systems of transmission, and especially for the 
telephone, the demand has grown up for hard drawn copper wire, or wire that 
is not annealed after drawing. This is seemingly a return to first principles, 
indeed, for Morse's first telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore 
was built of copper wire. But in its earlier employment the copper wire of the 
time proved too weak for the strain to which it was subjected. By modern 
processes copper wire has become indispensable in a very large part of electric 
service, and is exclusively used in the electric light. The Washburn <fe Moen 
Manufacturing Company have become one of the largest sources of supply of 
copper wire and copper electric conductors. 

Another interesting and important addition to. these products is the manu- 
facture of all varieties of wire cordage and cable, of all sizes known to the 
trade. The extensive modern employment of wire rope has made this branch 
of their industry a very laxge and flourishing one. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



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Soutli Mills or Quinsigamond Works, Washburn <& Moen Manufacturing Co. 

The company's works are kmiun as the North Mills on (irove Street 
vvliere also are the general offices of the company, and where most of the finest 
varieties of stock are made. At the Sonth Mills at Quinsigamond, in the 
sonth jiart of the city (a line of street railway connecting the two establish- 
ments), are made iron, by Swedish process, steel by th.' hearth process, and 
much of the heavier rod work. The company's warehouses are at No. 17 Cliff 
Street, New York, and Nos. 118 and 120 Lake Street, Chicago The officers 
of the company arc P. L Moen, president and treasurer: Charles F. Wash- 
burn, vice-president and secretary ; and Charles M. Morgan, general manager. 
Nearly 3,500 men are employed. 




North MiUs, Grove Street, Washburn <Sr Moen ManufBCturiny Co. 



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THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



J. S. WESBY & SONS, 

Booi^ BiijDEFfs, Paper Rulers, 

887 Mciin Street, 



BINDING ANIJ Rl II.ING 
Of every Description executed in the best niaiiner 

RebindiDg, Repairing, Gilding, Stamping, Perforating, Numbering, Eyeleting, Etc. 

BRONZE, SILVER, AND GOLD MEDALS AWARD 

■^XTi^vd:. X-. ..^ TT a- :e3: IB lES , 

SMALL EXPENSES, 



FOR FINE 

Dplolstery and Drapery Work, 

You can get as good work as is 
made in the City, at lower prices than 
elsewhere, by going to the 

WORCESTER 

UPHOLSTERY AND BEDDING 

MANUFACTORY, 

725 Main St., Cor. Hermon. 



As Fine Assortment of Coverings 
Jor Furniture as can be found in the 
City, 15 to 20 per cent Lower than 
any House. 




And doing Double the business of 
any House, enables us to offer this 
advantage to our patrons. 



HORSE CARS PASS THE DOOR. 



No Stairs to Climb. 

Drawing Trade. 



REMEMBER THE NUMBER 



725 MAIN ST., COR. HERMON. 



AUG. N. CURRIER. 



HERBERT A. CURRIER. 



AUG. N. CURRIER & SON, 

NO. 492 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. 

UKFRESENTS LEADING FIRE INSUKANCK (UiMI'AMKS uF 

l*eiiiisylvania, Xew York, Mnssaelnisetts, Hliocle Island & England 
MANUFACTURING, MERCANTILE, DWELLING, FARM PROPERTY, and BUILDING RISKS, 

INSURED AT CURREINT RATKS. 

Special attention given to tlie Placement of large line.s of Insurance. 

ALL LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PROMPTLY PAID. 



THE CITY OF WORCESTER. 



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PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK, 

452 MAIN ST, WORCESTER, MASS. 



INCORPORATED MAY 13, 1864. 



Deposits put upon 
Interest on the first 
day of February 
May, August, and 
November. 

Semi-Annual Dividends are 

payable in February, and 

August, and added to 

the Principal, If not 

withdrawn. 

ALL T^XES PAID BY 
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SAMUEL RHEYWOOD 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

CALVIN FOSTER, 

A, N. CURRIER, 

THOMAS M. ROGERS 
W. W. RICE, 

SDMNER PRATT, 

PHILIP L. MOEN. 

MANAGERS. 

(iKORGK A. PROWN, 
HENRY A. MARSH, 
WARREN WILLIAMS, 
HARLAN P. DUNCAN, 
JAMES P. HAMILTON, 
CHAS. P. WHITING. 
JOHN S. BALDWIN, 
EDWARD W. VAILL, 
HORACE WYMAN, 
SAMUEL D. NYE, 

FRANCIS A. GASKILL, 
THEODORE C. BATES. 



H. C. RICE. 



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C. M. BENT, 



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THK KNOWLES LOOM WORKS. 

Ill Jail 18S'), by act of incorporation the firm of \j J. Knowles & Bro- 
ther, became the Iviiowles Loom Works Corporation. Under the former name 
their business beL-^an in Warren, in 1862, removed to Worcester in 1866, 
where they were estal)lislicd in Dr. Sargent's buihiinsr. on A^licn Court, through- 
out the pei'iod fioni 186i) to 1870. At the date last named they yielded to 
the pressure of straitened premises, and took jwssession of the immense man- 
ufacturing structures, many years known as the Junction Shop, near 
the Junction, a locality of the city today somewhat harder to find than it 
was not half a generation ago, so completely has Worcester blended into her 
self her former outposts. 

The main building is 500 feet long and three stories high, with an "L" 
100 feet long, anci an office structure adjoining the main building. The com- 
pany manufacture everything in the lino of looms for fancy weaving, leaving 
out all the niaeiiines used on plain fiibrics. By this it will be understood that 
everything in the way of a loom required for fancy worsteds, cassimeres, ladies' 
dress goods, fancy cottons., ginghaius. silk dress goods, silk ribbons, cotton 
and linen tapes, wel)l)ings, suspenders, girths, belts, fire hose, comes within 
their province, and is covered by the successive and progressive inventions on 
which the business and the prosperity of the company rests. 

So greatly has their business grown, that they now employ in loom and 
foundry work over 600 men, and are running under avast press of orders. 
The average citizen innocent of all mill lore, would naturally believe that with 
all this activity in the loom business, there nuist come a time when from the 
mills and factories would come the cry " enough," for the actual life of a loom 
is at least twenty years. 

But here comes the manufacturers' fact, the story of all the great mills 
since the vast factory interest began to wheel into active line. Mill Machinery 
especially the Loom, is not permitted to live out half its days. It is continu- 
ally l)eing f)ushed out of its place liy improvements dictated by economy of 
time and matei'ial. No enterprising mill owner of the best class could ifford 
to take as a gift the best weaving machinery often years ago. He is continu- 
ally throwing out the old to avail himself of the new, and he must do it, so 
closely is competition pushed, measuring profits by infinitesimal fractions of 
a j)enny 

What becomes of tlie old Looms ? They go to smaller mills, perhaps, in 
the Provinces, and the looms of the latest, as fresh in style as a new bonnet, 
find their way into the Iront. Thus the great Knowles Loom Works are kept 
busy. 



PUTNAM, DAViS S CO., 
Boop;_se[jLei^s and Stiationei^s. 

For the JIoLllIclijs: 

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Hrnyer l^oolc^^ nn(l H \'i i 1 1 itil^^. 

389 MAIN STREET. , . WORCESTER, 



SpeciiiKMi Pages 



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WIDE AWAKE. 



VOL. 2 2. 



MAY, 1886. 



NO. 6. 



THE CENTURY PLANT, 



To a Child. 




IN my garden grows a plant 
Very stiff and very stately, 
And its curving leaves I grant 
That my eyes admire greatly. 

But though 1 may watch and wait 
All the years that God shall send me, 

Watch it early, tend it late, 

Not a bloom that jDlant shall lend me. 

Once within a hundred years 
Doth it burst to blossom only, 

And forgotten will be tears, 
And no more shall 1 be lonely, 

All delight in earthly bloom 

Will be less than nothing to me, 

When those splendid flowers perfume 
All the walks and haunts that knew me. 



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So I tind my love is more 

For the rose that blossoms yearly, 
Than for all the hidden store 

That this stately plant holds dearly. 

Better is it, child, to show 

Daily love and tender sweetness, 

Than to hide in deeps below 

All that gives your life completeness. 

Better far to fill the air 

With a common, fragrant pleasure, 
Than to stand aloof and rare 

With an unseen glowing treasuri . 

Bloom to-day, and if the frost 
Shall to-morrow nip your beauty, 

Then \ ou will not, dear, ha\c lost 
All that lies in active duly. 



Yet, if God commands you, wait 
With a splendor in you growing. 

Stand with meekness in your state 
Till the bud is ripe for blowing. 




BRAVE LITTLE AHi\i> 



LITTLE AH MOW'S FIGHT WIIH THE WOLVES 




LITTLE AH MOW was an Eskimo l)oy about 
ten years old, who lived with his parents on 
the bleak shores of northern Hudson's Bay. 

The Eskimo call themselves Innuits in their own 
language, and the particular tribe to which Ahmow 
belonged were Iwillik Innuits, so called from 
i-wick, the Eskimo for walrus, because they lived 
almost altogether upon walrus. During eight or 
nine months of the year, when the ice is along their 
shores, they hunt and kill the walrus on the outer 
edge of the ice-floe which is the great wide strip of 
ice frozen fast to the shores and heldby the islands 
and reefs here and there — or on the ice-pack, 
which is the floating cakes of ice that have broken 
off from the floe during storms. During: the short 



Arctic summer of two or three months, when the 
ice is all gone, they hunt them on the islands that 
lie thickly off the mainland and in the waters near 
them ; for the walrus is a huge animal that loves 
the water and lives in it nearly altogether, leaving 
it only to bask in the sun on a small island or near 
the edge of a cake of ice. 

When a walrus is secured by the Eskimo, its meat 
is sewed up in its own hide, to prevent the dogs 
from eating it up ; and it is a good protection, for 
to bite through the thick skin is like trying to bite 
through a piece of rubber belting. The walrus oil 
saved — about a barrelful for each animal — was 
formerly sewed up in sealskin bags and covered 
with large stones to protect it from the dogs, wolves. 



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and foxes ; but as wlialemen have conic among 
them, and ships have been wrecked on their ice- 
bound coasts, they have saved the large casks, hold- 
ing four and five barrels, and now fill these with 
oil. Although this oil is got in the summer, as I 
have said, it is only needed in the winter when they 
are living in houses of snow and burn ilic oil in 
their lamps to warm them. So the casks generally 
remain on the islands until the ice forms to them, 
and over this they ride merrily on their sledges to 
get it from time to time. 

It was in winter when little Ahmow's father 
hitched up his sledge-team of six or eight fine dogs 
at the village where they where living, intending to 
go to an island some ten or twelve miles distant 
and get a cask or two of oil for the lamp, and some 
of the walrus meat and some hide to feed to the dogs. 

Ahmow's father, Nantwok by name — which 
means the polar bear, for the Eskimo are named 
like our Western Indians, after animals, birds, or 
incidents of their lives — had intended at first to 
go alone ; but his little boy begged so hard to go — 
and they humor their boys so in all their wishes 
— that his father promised him that he might. So 
Ahmow wrapped himself up in his new reindeer 
suit that his mother had just completed for him 
from the reindeer skins his father had secured in 
the fall, for it was a very cold day out-of-doors, al- 
though the Eskimo seldom notice the cold, however 
intense it may be, unless the wind is blowing sharp 
from the direction in which they want to travel. 

He helped his father, as all Eskimo children are 
very fond of doing, with such aid as he could in 
preparing for the journey. He brought water in a 
sealskin bucket, and with his father put a thick 
coating of ice on the bottom of his sledge runners 
so that they would glide over the snow smoothly. 
He helped catch the dogs and harness them and 
tie them to the sledge ; and when this was done 
ran into the snow-house — or rather crawled in on 
his hands and knees, so low is the door — and got 
his father's whip and their lunch to eat while they 
were gone. Then both of them jumping on the 
sledge, the long whiplash was cracked over the 
backs of the dogs and away they went on as merry 
a ride as any young fellow would wish to take, 
whether Eskimo or civilized boy. 

On they went at this fast gait for two or three 
miles. Then the dogs were allowed to drop down 
to a pleasant trot, a gait they will keep up all dav 



with a light sledge when a number arc harnessed 
to it. 

Once or twice the dogs threw their noses in the 
air and sniffed the breeze. Then Nannook would 
take one dog, the best hunter, out of the sledge, 
and the dog's nose would lead him to a seal-hole in 
the ice. Here the two would wait a few minutes, 
and if the seal did not come to "blow" (which 
means to get its breath, the first gasp or two being 
quite loud), they would resume their sledge jour- 
ney. One seal came up to breathe while they were 
watching it, and Ahmow's father caught it with his 
seal spear, just to instruct his little boy in the way 

■ a 




ESKIMO WALRUS SPEAR. 

a b — wooden handle. 

a c — walrus ivory lance. 

e — sealskin line extending to 

h — barbed head. 
When ready for use the ivory lance is " bent on " to the 
wooden handle, and the head placed on the end c ; all held 
in a straight line by the line e passed over the pin /. When 
the head is driven under the skin of an animal, a twist is 
given the spear which breaks off at c and a, the wood and 
ivory falling away, and nothing but the line is left in the 
hands of the hunter. 

of hunting and catching them. The hole in the 
snow where the seal breathes is not' much larger 
than a dime or quarter of a dollar ; so you can .see 
that the dog's keen nose is needed to find so small 
an affair among vast fields of ice. 

The seal was thrown on the sledge, and they 
were off again for the island with its oil-casks. 
When they were very near to it, what should they 
see spring up from its side, where he had evidently 
been prowling around the oil-casks and meat-cairns 
(huge stones piled over the meat) to get a meal, 
but a huge polar bear that made off across the ice 
to escape. 

Nannook leaned forward and,by a single pulling 
on a strap, let loose the whole team of dogs. They 
soon brought the polar bear to bay, sitting up on 
his haunches fighting them, and here they remained 
till Nannook came up with his gun, and with a 
single effectual shot killed the great animal. He 
was soon skinned, the meat from his carcass put in 
a stone cairn for dog-food in the future. 






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Cfggj'jgjgj g^iM/^^J^^^H^^^^ 





ilK starlings fly in the windy sky, 

The rabbits run out a-row, 

The pheasants stalk in the stubble dry 

As I tramp through the evenglow, — 

As I tramp, tramp, tramp, and grow 

More weary with every stride, 

And think, as the riders come and go,- 

If I had a horse to ride ! 








HE farmer trots by on his roadster high. 

The 'Squire on his pony low. 

Young Miss sweeps out from the Park-gate 

And canters away with her beau : 

They are proud of themselves, — oh, no! 

But couldn't I deal in pride, 

And couldn't I too cut a dash and show, 

If I had a horse to ride ! 




HK farmer is four limes as fat as 1, 

The 'Squire he is blind and slow, 

Young Miss has not nearly so bright an eye 

As Bess at the " Barley Mow " ; — 

Ah, \\(jiil(ln'l I cry "Gee-hup, gee-ho ! " 

And woukhi'l 1 bang his side, 

And wouldn't 1 teach him to gallop it, though, 

If I had a horse to ride ! 





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:/^,. 



1 1 was only a Beggar that grumbled so. 
As his blistered feet he plied ; 
But I he cry is a cry that we all of us know.- 
JJ I had a horse to ride .' 



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LyCCC*c^m. 




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HEIGH-HO for the bath-tub sea, 
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho ! 
Both of the faucets are running free 

And the waters rush and flow. 
And there is Ted, and there is Tim, 
And they watch it filling to the brim. 
Each one ready to set afloat 
On this wonderful tide a boat. 



Now Ted is neither perch nor trout, 

And he cannot swim, 
But more like an eel he flounders about, 

And cries, and calls to Tim ; 
And Tim, the sturdy little man. 
Tugs at him, pulls him best he can. 

Till dripping at eyes and nose and ears 

Ted's woe-gone face appears. 



'Tis a forbidden play, 'tis true. 

They know that well ; 
But mamma's away, and there's nothing to do. 

And who is there to tell ? 
So here they launch the baby's shoe, 
And here sails mamma's rubber too. 

And here, at length — oh my! — goes Ted, 

Head-first, heels-over-head ! 



Now who, when mamma comes, will tell 

The dreadful news ? 
If not the little boy that fell, 

Why, then, his stockings and shoes ! 
His new suit, too, will tell it plain. 
And his drenched curls tell it over again ; 

And I half suspect she will see the traces 

Of tears on both their faces. 



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FOE, 1887. 



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Romulus and Remus. 



By Charles Remington Talbot. This story is not a tale of ancient 
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In Deep Woods. 

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Tree-.Sparrow. 
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Some Successful American Women. l^::\Jif£:L^:%::ti 

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THE CLOCKS OF KENIL W O R T H . 



" The clocks we?-e stopped at the ha liquet- hour." 



AN ivy spray in my iiand I hold, 
The kindly ivy that covers the mould 
Of ruined halls ; it was brought to me 
From Kenilworth Castle, over the sea — 
O, Ivy, Ivy, I think of that Queen, 
Who once swept on her way through the oak walls 

green. 
To Kenilworth, far in the gathering glooms, 
Her cavalcade white with silver plumes. 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, 
And thou dost cover their castle's mould., 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true I 



O, Ivy true, O, Ivy old. 
The great clocks stare on the cups of gold 
Like dreadful eyes, and their hands pass on 
The festive minutes, one by one. 
— " Dying — dying," they seem to say — 
" This too — this too — shall pass away," 
And the knights look up, and the knights look down, 
And their fair white brows on the great clocks 
frown. 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. 
And thou dost cover their castle's mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! 



O, Ivy, Ivy — I see that hour. 
The great bell strikes in the signal-tower, 
The banners lift in the ghostly moon. 
The bards Provenc^al their harps attune, 
The fiery fountains play on the lawns. 
The glare of the rocket startles the fawns, 
The trumpets peal, and roll the drums. 
And the Castle thunders, " She comes, she comes ! " 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. 
And thou dost cover their castle'' s mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true.' 



On the dais the Queen now stands — and falls 
A silence deep on the blazing halls ; 
She opes her lips — but, hark ! now dare 
The clocks to beat in the stillness there ? 
— "Dying — dying," they seem to say — 
" This too — this too — shall pass away ! " 
And the Queen looks up, and with stony stare 
The high clocks look on the proud Queen there. 
They are gofie, all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, 
And thou dost cover their castle^ s mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true! 



But hark ! the notes of the culverin ! 
To the Castle's portal, trooping in, 
A thousand courtiers torches bear. 
And the turrets Hame in the dusty air. 
The Castle is ringing, " All hail ! all hail ! " 
Ride slowly, O Queen ! 'mid the walls of mail. 
And now let the courtliest knight of all 
Lead thy jewelled feet to the banquet hall ; 
A thousand goblets await thee there. 
And the great clocks lift their faces in air. 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old, 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, 
And thou dost cover their castle's mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! 



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here ? " 
" That the hour should last " — so said a peer. 
" The hour ^//(///last ! " the proud earl calls ; 
" Ho ! Stop the clock-^ in the banquet halls ! " 
And the clocks' slow pulses of death were stilled. 
And the gay earl smiled, and the wine was spilled. 
And the jewelled Queen at the dumb clocks 

laughed, 
And the flashing goblet raised and quaffed. 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold, 
And thou dost cover their castle's mouldy 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kincf and true ! 



THE CLOCKS OF KENILU'ORTH. 



307 



lluL time went on, thouf^h the clocks were dead ; 
( )'er the dewy oaks rose the morning red. 
The earl of that sun-crowned castle died, 
And never won the Queen for his bride, 
And the Queen grew old, and withered, and gray, 
And at last in her halls of state she lay 
On her silken cushions, bejewelled, but poor, 
And the courtiers listened without the door. 
They arc gone ^ all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. 
And thou dost cover their castle's mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true ! 



O, Ivy true, as they listen there. 
On the helpless Queen the great clocks stare. 
And over and over again they say, 
" This too — this too — shall pass away." 
And she clasps the air with her fingers old, 
And the hall is shadowy, empty and cold. 
" Life ! life ! " she cries, " my all would I give 
For a moment, one moment, O, Time, to live ! 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. 
And thou dost cover their castle's mould, 
O, Ivy, Ivy, kind and true .' 





The twilight Hushes the arrased hall. 
The Night comes still, and her velvet pall 
Of diamonds cold drops from her hand, 
And still as the stars is the star-lit land. 
Men move like ghosts through the castle's rooms, 
But the old clocks talk 'mid the regal glooms: 
— " Dying — dying," tliey seem to say. 
Till the astrals pale in the light of day. 
They are gone, all gone, those knights of old. 
With their red-cross banners and spurs of gold. 
And thou dost co-'cr their castle's mould, 
O, It'V, T-'W kind and true ! 



On her crownless brow fell white her hair. 
And she buried her face in lier cushions there : 
" One moment ! " — it echoed througli the hall, 
])Ut the clock stopped not on the arrased wall. 

There is a palace whose dial towers 

Uplift no record of vanishing hours, 
Di.sease comes not to its doors, nor falls 
Death's dusty step in its golden halls. 
And more than cnnuns, or castles old. 
Or red-cross banners, or sf>urs of gold. 
That palace key it is to hold, 
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MAMMA TO PHILIP. 

Once a careless little boy 

Lost his ball, at play, 
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Threw his bat away. 

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You and I agree — 
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Not more wise than he. 

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Old and v/ise as you — 
Yet, because he lost his kite. 

He lost his temper, too. — H. R. Hudson 



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DkaR FuIENDS ALL GiRLS AXD BoYS WHO 

liKAi) The Pansy : 

It is now Xoveinber. The long evenings have 
eonie, wlien the curtains are drawn, and the 
wood fire crackles and glows, and every one, old 
and young, is casting about what to do to amuse 
iiiinself. Lessons are completed, let us hope, 
and not dragged along into the evening, and the 
quiet rea<ling hour is over. What shall we do 
for a little time before going to bed, to send us 
tlit'ic I'ght-hearted and happ}', just tired enough 
by t'xercise to make us sleep through the long, 
delightfully restful night? 

Why not have a game or two to stretch our 
limbs, give " good-by " to some intruding cai'e 
or worry, and bring all the family together for a 
merry laugh? Does anybody object? Well, 
then come, Mary and Tom, here are two capital 
ones to begin with ; see if you can't start them. 
Fine games you will find they are for Thanks- 
giving night ; take my word for it, and try them 
then. 

GAME NUMUEH I. 

]VIary, you may begin : 

Bring a newspa])er into the room ; a pretty 
large one, for it seems more reasonable, as j'ou 
go on to ask " Can you and you " ( pointing to 
two members of the family circle ) "stand with 
both feet on this ])aper whicii I may spread on 
the fioor, yet not touch each other?" 

" Nonsense ! " " It can't be done." " Tm])()s- 
sible ! " will greet your ears. 

Make them try, ]Mary. Encourage them now 
and then by telling them how you and Tom have 
done it. Give it to two others after the first 



two liave tried long enough, until everybody has 
exhausted their ingenuity. Finally take it your- a 
self when they have all laughed enough over the 
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your place." 

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on your half of the paper in the room. 

A shout will greet you. It is one of the neat- 
est of tricks if brightly played. 

GAME NUMHEU II. 

Shadow Buff: — Tom, it is your turn to 
superintend the game. 

We will suppose every one is tired of blind- 
man's-buff. Beside, it is too noisy for grandma 
and aunt Sarah who is something of an invalid. 
Why not try Shadow Buff ? 

Make a sheet taut and smooth across one end 
of a room. Choose some one to be Buffy. Let 
him sit on a hassock or low seat a little distance 
in front of the sheet, with his face to it. About 
a yard behind him ))ut a table, and on it a lighted 
candle. Put out all the other lights. The audi- 
ence can be in chairs and sofas back of table. 
Now keep very quiet, or Buffy will guess by the 
tones of your voices who you are. He must not 
look on either side, only straight ahead on the 
sheet. Now begin. Each of the players jtarade 
in turn between the lighted candle and Buffy; 
he can hop, dance or walk in any fashion he 
chooses, grimacing, and distorting his shadow- 
on the sheet. 

liuffy can oidy have one guess who a ])erson 
is. Then tlie next one must pass bi'tw<'en him 
and the candU', ami so on till all lia\t' pa-^scd. 
The one who is guessed c-orrcctly must of course 
take IJuffy's jtlace, who then falls into line among 
the |)Iayers. 

Next month I will give you two games for 
Ciiristmas Kvi'. 

And now, dear Pansies, I hope you will have 
a happv time this 'I'hanksgiving day and night. 
IJcmember one thing — ^^<lkc ofhirs happy. 
Let that be your motto, and may God bless your 
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LIFE OF WASHINGTON. By E. E. Brown. Young 
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LIFE OF ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. By E. E. 

Brown. Popul.\r Biographies. Illustrated, i2ino, cloth, 

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The biographer has performed the difficult task of condensing 
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OUR AMERICAN ARTISTS. By S. G. W. Benja- 
min. i6mo, Reading Union Library, 5100. 
This work has been prepared by the recent U. S. Minister to 
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WONDER STORIES OF TRAVEL. By Eliot 

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A STORY BOOK OP SCIENCE. By Lvdia Hovt 

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THE MODERN JEW, His Present and Future. 

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HEAVEN'S GATE. A Story of the Forest of Dean. By 

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SILVER RAGS. By Willis Bovd Allen. Pine Cone 
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" Like beggar princes of the wood 
In silver rags the birches stood." 

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WHAT'S MINE'S MINE. By George MacDonald. 

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ETCHINGS FROM TWO LANDS. By Clara 
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Some readers who know the author of this book by her " Cherry- 
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Japan as a missionary. In these "Etchings" she combines the 
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heart life of her missionary labors. She observed keenly and 
arrayed what she saw in attr.ictive form, so that her book is full 
of interesting information on a large variety of subjects connected 
with Japanese life, and will serve to correct many mistaken ideas 
about Japan and its people. 

THE EXCELLENT WOMAN. As Described in ilic 
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D. D. Illustrations in brown ink. ijnio, cloth, gilt top, f 1.50, 
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" Active " Woman, and so on, it treats of the woman a.* 
Wife, Mother and Sister, and with the richness of imagery found 
only in the Oriental original. Each chapter is enriched with .1 
tinted picture of The Excellent Eastern Woman in the v.nied 
capacities assigned to her in the successive verses taken for the 
chnpler tcvt, 

POETRY AND SONG. By James G. Clarke. I'mn, 

cloth, #1.00. 

Many of the poems of this author have become familiar tin. iiitth- 
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Babyland will have two enticing new features for the babies and tlieir viamnias, in addition to the perennial pleasures 
of the countless little two-minute stories and verses with which the magazine always has abounded. 

Especially calculated to merrily occupy the eyes and ears of the little ones are the monthly pictorial pages called 

PUZZLES ABOUT PETER AND PATTY, 

text and pictures by Margaret Johnson: and especially calculated to sweetly teach and charm are the home kindergarten 

delights called 

NURSERY FINGER-PLAYS, 

by Emilie Poidsson, with dozens and dozens and dozens of bewitching picture-instructions by L. J. Bridgman. Every one 
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The Serial Story for the year, by that charming writer for children, Afrs. M. F. Butts, will be entitled, 

WANDERERS IN BO-PEEP'S WORLD. 
It will be accompanied with twelve full-page drawings by Miss E. S. Tucker. The author of "Little Talks about 
Plants" and "Little Talks about Insects," has jMcpared an amusing series about 

TINY FOLK IN RED AND BLACK, 
in which she tells about ants and their wise and curious ways — how they work, how they harvest their grain, how they 

milk their cows, etc. 

TEN LITTLE INDIANS, 

by Mrs. Helen E. Siveet, tells many interesting things about Indian boys and girls, their sports and their strange ways of 
living, so unlike the life of our little men and women. The History Chapters for the year will consist of 

ADVENTURES OF THE EARLY DISCOVERERS, 

by Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey, following on from the voyages of Columbus, given last year, and relating the story of Ponce 
de Leon and his search in America for the Fountain of Youth, the romantic tale of De Soto and his burial in the Missis, 
sippi River, the exploits of Capt. John Smith in Virginia, etc., such incidents being chosen from the life of each as shall 
most interest little readers. 

All these will be profusely illustrated, as also will be the verses and short stories by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, Sara E. 
Farman, Mrs. Olive Harvard, Charles E. Skinner, Bessie Chandler, H. K. Hudson, Anna R. Henderson, Henrietta K. Elliot, 
Emilie Poulsson, and other favorite luriters. 

The yearly numbers, as heretofore, will have seventy-five full-page pictures. $1.00 a year. 



THE PANSY ^WI\U^.^ 

This illustrated monthly contains thirty-two to forty pages each number, of enjoyable and helpful literature and pict- 
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MONTEAGLE. 
The Golden Text Stories will be continued under the title of " A Dozen of Us." Margaret Sidney will contribute 
a serial story called 

THE LITTLE RED SHOP, 

telling how Jack and Cornelius and Rosalie earned money to help mother take care of the baby. There will be more 
"Great Men" and more " Remarkable Women." Faye Huntington will write of flowers and plants in 

MRS. BROWN'S BOTANY CLASS. 
Rev. C. M. Livingston will furnish stories of Great Events, People, Discoveries, Inventions, etc. A novel feature 
will be a story by eleven different authors. R. M. Alden will direct a new department of Church, Sabbath School and Mis- 
sionary News. The present departments will continue, and new ones be opened. $1.00 a year. 
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